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

Africa

• Algeria (Hammadid) - Qaid ibn Hammad (1028-1045)
• Egypt (Fatimids) - Ma'ad al-Mustansir Billah , Fatimid caliph (1035-1094)
  • Ifriqiya (Zirid) - Muizz ibn Badis (1015-1062)

Americas

Asia

• Ani - Gagik II of Ani , King of Ani (1042-1045)
• Caliphate (Abbasid) - Al-Qa'im, Caliph in Baghdad (1031-1075)
• Ghaznavid Empire - Mawdud I of Ghaznavid (1041-1050)
• Khmer Empire - Suryavarman I (1001-1050)
• Seljuk Turks - Toğrül (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 - 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 - Constantine IX Monomachus, Byzantine emperor (1042-1055)
• Castile - Ferdinand I, King of Castile (1035-1065)
• Croatia - Stjepan , King of Croatia (1030-1058)
• Denmark -
  • 1. Canute the Hardy, King of Denmark (1035-1042)
    2. Magnus, King of Denmark (1042-1047)
• England -
  • 1. Harthacanute, King of England (1040-1042)
    2. 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 V, King of Germany (1039-1056)Duke of Swabia (1038-1045)
  • Austria - Adalbert Margrave of Austria (1018-1055)
  • Baden - Berthold I , Margrave of Baden (1024-1077)
  • Barrois - Sophie of Bar , Count 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 - Welf, Duke of Carinthia (1039-1055)
  • Holland - Dirk IV , Count of Holland (1039–1049)
  • Lower Lorraine - Gothelo the Great , Duke of Lower Lorraine (1023-1044)
  • Upper Lorraine - Gothelo the Great , Duke of Upper Lorraine (1033–1044)
  • Palatinate - Otto I of Swabia , Count Palatine of the Rhine (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
  • Utrecht - Bernold , Prince-Bishop of Utrecht (c. 1026-1054)
• Hungary - Sámuel Aba , King of Hungary (1041-1044)
• Ireland - Donnchad Ua Briain , High King of Ireland (1024-1064)
• Kyivan Rus' - Yaroslav I the Wise, ruler of Kyivan Rus' (1019–1054)
• Montferrat - Otto II of Montferrat , marquis of Montferrat (1017-1084)
• Navarre - Garcia III , King of Navarre (1035-1054)
• Norway - Magnus the Good, King of Norway (1035-1047)
• Poland - Casimir the Restorer, 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)