1087

1087 (MLXXXVII), was a common year beginning on a Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

• Galicia - Uprising in Galicia against the king led by Don Rodrigo Ovéquiz and Don Diego Peláez, bishop of Santiago de Compostela, offering the kingdom to Guillermo el Conquistador, Duke of Normandy. Don Diego's dismissal for the king in 1088.
• Numerous gentlemen of the European Christianity arrived in Spain, mainly Franks, after the invasion of the Almoravids in 1086 and the defeat of King Alfonso VI of Leon and Castile in the Battle of Sagrajas, in the help of the Kingdom of Leon and Castile, and the Kingdom of Aragon.

Deaths

• William I of England, the conqueror.
• Blot-Sven, king of Sweden.
• Victor III, Dad.