Albert I
1255 – 1308 · 53 years · Vienna · Europe
Reign: 1298 – 1308 (Holy Roman Empire & Austria)
Son of Rudolf I and duke of Austria, he became king after defeating Adolf of Nassau. He strengthened royal power but in 1308 was murdered by the River Reuss by his disinherited nephew John; Swiss tradition sets the William Tell legend in his reign.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 13th century
Portrait: Anton Boys · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Dante Alighieri — poet, author of the Divine Comedy, 10 years younger
- Edward I Longshanks — conqueror of Wales, called the Hammer of the Scots, 16 years older
- Philip IV the Fair — king who destroyed the Knights Templar, 13 years younger
- Rudolf I — first Habsburg king, who won Austria for his house, 37 years older
- Thomas Aquinas — theologian and philosopher, 30 years older
- Saint Louis (Louis IX) — crusader king canonised as a saint, 41 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan Kalita — prince who began the gathering of Russian lands around Moscow, 33 years younger
- Daniel of Moscow — first prince of Moscow, founder of the Moscow line of the Rurikids, 6 years younger
- Yury of Moscow — first Moscow prince to become grand prince of Vladimir, 26 years younger
Middle East
Africa
- Mansa Musa — ruler of the Mali Empire, 25 years younger
Asia
- Marco Polo — Venetian traveller, 1 year older
- Kublai Khan — Great Khan, founder of the Yuan dynasty, 40 years older
- Emperor Go-Daigo — emperor who overthrew the Kamakura shogunate, 33 years younger
- Gajah Mada — prime minister of Majapahit, 35 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1257 Samalas eruption — aged 2, Asia
- 1258 Mongol sack of Baghdad — aged 3, Middle East
- 1271 Kublai Khan founds the Yuan dynasty — aged 16, Asia
- 1271–1295 Travels of Marco Polo — aged 16, Asia
- c. 1280 Polynesians settle New Zealand — aged 25, Oceania
- 1281 Kamikaze, the divine wind — aged 26, Asia
- 1293 Founding of Majapahit — aged 38, Asia
- c. 1300 Onset of the Little Ice Age — aged 45, Europe