List of heads of state 1041

Africa

China
- Liao (in North China)
  - Emperor : Liao Xingzong (1031-1055)
- Northern song
  - Emperor : Renzong (1022-1063)
- Xi Xia
  - Emperor : Jǐngzōng (1032-1048)

India
- Western Chalukya (in the West Indies)
  - King : Rajaraja Narendra (1018-1061)
- Chola (in South India)
  - King : Rajendra I. (1014-1044)
- Cashmere ( Lohara Dynasty )
  - King : Ananta Deva (1028-1063)

Iran
- Old Untaschiden
  - Ruler: Ismail Chandan ibn Altun-Tasch (1035-1041)
- Buyiden
  - Ruler of Fars and Khuzistan : Imad ad-Din Abu Kalidschar (1024-1048)
  - Ruler of Kirman : Imad ad-Din Abu Kalidschar Marzuban (1028-1048)
- Ghaznavids
  - Ruler : Masʿūd I (1031-1041)
  - Ruler: Muḥammad (1041)
  - Ruler: Maudūd (1041-1048)

Byzantine Empire
- Emperor : Michael IV. (1034-1041)
- Emperor: Michael V (1041-1042)

Denmark
- King : Hardiknut (1035-1042) (1035-1037, 1040-1042 King of England)

England
- King : Hardiknut ( 1035–1037 , 1040–1042) (1035–1042 King of Denmark)

France
- King : Henry I (1031-1060)
- Anjou
  - Count : Gottfried II. (1040-1060)
- Aquitaine
  - Duke : Wilhelm VII. (1039-1058)
- Auvergne
  - Count : Wilhelm V (1032-1064)
- Brittany
  - Duke : Conan II (1040-1066)
- Burgundy (Duchy)
  - Duke : Robert I (1032-1076)
- Burgundy (Free County)
  - Count Palatine : Rainald I (1026-1057)
- Maine
  - Count : Hugo IV. (1032 / 35-1051)
- Normandy
  - Duke : William II (1035-1087) (1066-1087 King of England)
- Toulouse county
  - Count : Pons (1037-1061)

Holy Roman Empire
- Roman-German King : Heinrich III. (1039-1056) (from 1046 emperor )
- Bavaria
  - Duke : Henry VI. (1027-1042, 1047-1049 ) (1039-1056 Roman-German king)
- Bohemia
  - Duke : Břetislav I (1034-1055)
- Flanders
  - Count : Balduin V. (1035-1067)
- Holland
  - Count : Dietrich IV. (1039-1049)
- Carinthia
  - vacant (1039-1047)
- Lausitz
  - Margrave : Ekkehard I. (1034-1046) (1038-1046 Margrave of Meissen)
- Luxembourg
  - Count : Henry VII (1026-1047)
- Meissen
  - Margrave : Ekkehard II. (1038-1046) (1034-1046 Margrave of Merseburg)
- Lower Lorraine
  - Duke : Gozelo I (1023-1044) (1033-1044 Duke of Upper Lorraine)
- Upper Lorraine
  - Duke : Gozelo I (1033-1044) (1023-1044 Duke of Lower Lorraine)
- Saxony
  - Duke : Bernhard II. (1011-1059)
- Swabia
  - vacant (1038-1045)

Italy
- Amalfi
  - Duke : Waimar I (1039-1043) (1038-1047 Prince of Capua, 1027-1052 Prince of Salerno)
- Aversa
  - Count : Rainulf Drengot (1030-1045)
- Benevento (common rule)
  - Duke : Pandulf III. (1012-1050, 1054-1059 )
  - Duke: Landulf VI. (1038-1053, 1054-1077 )
- Capua
  - Prince : Waimar (1038-1047) (1039-1043 Duke of Amalfi, 1027-1052 Prince of Salerno)
- Papal States
  - Pope : Benedict IX. (1032-1044, 1045, 1047-1048 )
- Montferrat
  - Margrave : Wilhelm III. (991-1042)
- Naples
  - Duke : John V (1036-1042)
- Salerno
  - Prince : Waimar IV. (1027-1052) (1039-1043 Duke of Amalfi, 1038-1047 Prince of Capua)
- Sicily ( Kalbites )
  - Emir : Hasan as-Samsam (1040-1053)
- Tuscany
  - Margrave : Boniface IV. (1027-1052)
- Venice
  - Doge : Domenico Flabanico (1032-1043)

Spain
- Aragon
  - King : Ramiro I (1035-1063)
- Barcelona
  - Count : Raimund Berengar I (1035-1076)
- Castile
  - King : Ferdinand I (1035-1065) (1037-1065 King of León)
- Leon
  - King : Ferdinand I (1037-1065) (1035-1065 King of Castile)
- Navarre
  - King : García III. (1035-1054)
- Sobrarbe - Ribagorza
  - King: Gonzalo (1035-1043)

Hungary
- King : Peter Orseolo (1038-1041, 1044-1047 )
- King: Sámuel Aba (1041-1044)

Zeta (in present-day Montenegro)
- Prince : Stefan Vojislav (1039 – around 1055)