List of state leaders in 1042

1041 state leaders - Events of 1042 - 1043 state leaders - State leaders by year -----

Africa

*Fatimid Caliphate - unicode|Abū Tamīm Ma'add al-Mustanṣir bi-llāh, Caliph (1036-1094)
**Ifriqiya - Al-Muizz ibn Badis, Zirid Viceroy (1016-1062)
*Hammadids - Qaid ibn Hammad (1028-1045)
*Wagadou (Ghana Empire) - Bassi, Ghana of Wagadou Empire (1040-1062)

Americas

Asia

*Ani - Gagik II of Ani, King of Ani (1042-1045)
*Caliphate (Abbasid) - Al-Qa'im, Caliph in Baghdad (1031-1075)
*Byzantine Empire -
** Zoe (Ζωή) Byzantine Empress (1028 - 1050)
**Michael V the Caulker (Μιχαήλ Ε' ο Καλαφάτης) Byzantine Emperor (1041 - 1042)
**Theodora (Θεοδώρα) (980 - 1056, ruled 1042) – daughter of Constantine VIII, coempress with Zoe
**Constantine IX Monomachos (Κωνσταντίνος Θ' ο Μονομάχος) Byzantine Emperor (1042 - 1055)
*Ghaznavid Empire - Mawdud I of Ghaznavid (1041-1050)
*Khmer Empire - Suryavarman I (1001-1050)
*Seljuk Turks - Torül (1037-1063
*Tamil Nadu - Rajendra Chola & Rajadhiraja Chola, Kings of Tamil Nadu (1012-1044 & 1054)
*China (Northern Song Dynasty) - Renzong, Emperor of Song China (1022-1063)
*Japan -
**Monarch - Emperor Go-Suzaku, emperor of Japan (1036-1045)
**Regent (Kampaku) - Fujiwara no Yorimichi, Kampaku (1020-1068); Sessho (1017-1020)
*Khitan Empire - Xingzong, Khitan Emperor (1031-1055)
*Korea (Goryeo Dynasty) - Jeongjong, King of Goryeo (1034-1046)
*Western Xia - Jingzong, Emperor of Western Xia (1032-1048)

Europe

*Aragon - Ramiro I, King of Aragon (1035-1063)
*Barcelona - Ramon Berenguer I, Count of Barcelona (1035-1076)
*Brittany - Conan II of Rennes, Duke of Brittany (1040-1066)
*Byzantine Empire -
** Zoe (Ζωή) Byzantine Empress (1028 - 1050)
**Michael V the Caulker (Μιχαήλ Ε' ο Καλαφάτης) Byzantine Emperor (1041 - 1042)
**Theodora (Θεοδώρα) (980 - 1056, ruled 1042) – daughter of Constantine VIII, coempress with Zoe
**Constantine IX Monomachos (Κωνσταντίνος Θ' ο Μονομάχος) Byzantine Emperor (1042 - 1055)
*Castile - Ferdinand I the Great, King of Castile (1035-1065)
*Croatia - Stjepan, King of Croatia (1030-1058)
*Denmark -
*# Canute the Hardy, King of Denmark (1035-1042)
*# Magnus, King of Denmark (1042-1047)
*England -
*# Harthacanute, King of England (1040-1042)
*# Edward III the Confessor, King of England (1042-1066)
*France - Henry I, King of France (1031-1060)
**Angouleme - Geoffrey, Count of Angouleme (1032-1048)
**Anjou - Geoffrey II Martel, Count of Anjou (1040-1060)
**Aquitaine - William VII, Duke of Aquitaine (1039-1058)
**Auvergne - William V, Count of Auvergne (1032-1064)
**Blois & Champagne - Theobald III(I), Count of Blois Count of Champagne (1037-1089)
**Boulogne - Eustace I, Count of Boulogne (1032-1049)
**Burgundy (duchy) - Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1032-1076)
**Flanders - Baldwin V, Count of Flanders (1037-1067)
**Maine - Hugh IV, Count of Maine (1036-1051)
**Normandy - William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy (1035-1087)
**Toulouse - Pons of Toulouse, Count of Toulouse (1037- c. 1061)
*Georgia - Bagrat IV, King of Georgia (1027-1072)
*Holy Roman Empire - Henry III, King of Germany (1039-1056)Duke of Swabia (1038-1045)
**Austria - Adalbert Margrave of Austria (1018-1055)
**Barrois - Sophie of Bar, Countess of Bar (1033-1092)
**Bavaria - Henry VII, Duke of Bavaria (1042-1047)
**Bohemia - Bretislav I, Duke of Bohemia (1035-1055)
**Burgundy (county) - Renaud I, count of Burgundy (1026-1057)
**Carinthia - Henry IV, Duke of Carinthia (1039-1047)
**Holland - Dirk IV, Count of Holland (1039–1049)
**Lower Lorraine - Gothelo the Great, Duke of Lower Lorraine (1023-1044)
***Utrecht - Bernold, Prince-Bishop of Utrecht (c. 1026-1054)
***West Friesland - Dirk IV, Count of West Friesland (1039–1049)
**Upper Lorraine - Gothelo the Great, Duke of Upper Lorraine (1033–1044)
**Palatinate - Otto I, Count Palatine of Lotharingia (1034-1045)
**Provence - Foulques Bertrand & Geoffroi I, Counts of Provence (1018-1051 & 1032-1062)
**Savoy - Umberto I Biancamano, Count of Savoy (1003- c. 1048)
**Saxony - Bernard II, Duke of Saxony (1011-1059)
**Styria - ? vacant 1038-1047
*Hungary - Sámuel Aba, King of Hungary (1041-1044)
*Ireland - Donnchad mac Briain, High King of Ireland (1024-1064)
*Kyivan Rus' - Yaroslav I the Wise, ruler of Kyivan Rus' (1019–1054)
*León - Ferdinand I the Great, King of León (1037-1065)
*Montferrat - Otto II of Montferrat, marquis of Montferrat (1017-1084)
*Navarre - Garcia V, King of Navarre (1035-1054)
*Norway - Magnus the Good, King of Norway (1035-1047)
* Poland - Casimir I, Duke of Poland (1039-1058)
*Scotland - Macbeth, King of Scotland (1040-1057)
*Sweden - Anund Jacob, King of Sweden (1022-1050)
*Venice - Domenico Flabanico, Doge of Venice (1032-1043)
*Wales (List of rulers of Wales)
**Deheubarth - Hywel ab Edwin (1033-1044)
**Glywysing - Hywel ab Owain & Gryffydd ap Rhydderch (990-1043 & 1033-1055)
**Gwent - Edwyn ap Gwriad (1015-1045)
**Gwynedd - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, Prince of Gwynedd (1033-1063)