Albert II
1397 – 1439 · 42 years · Vienna · Europe
Reign: 1438 – 1439 (Holy Roman Empire & Austria)
Duke of Austria and son-in-law of Sigismund, he inherited the crowns of Hungary and Bohemia and was elected German king in 1438. From him on the Habsburgs held the imperial throne without a break, but he ruled under two years, dying of dysentery on campaign against the Turks.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Johannes Gutenberg — inventor of the printing press, 3 years younger
- Joan of Arc — heroine of the Hundred Years' War, 15 years younger
- Sigismund — emperor of the Council of Constance that ended the Schism and burned Hus, 29 years older
- Charles VII — king under whom the Hundred Years’ War ended, 6 years younger
- Henry V — victor of Agincourt who became heir to the French crown, 11 years older
- Louis XI — the "universal spider" who pieced France together, 26 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Andrei Rublev — icon painter, 37 years older
- Vasily I — grand prince who annexed Nizhny Novgorod, 26 years older
- Vasily II the Blind — grand prince blinded in a dynastic civil war, 18 years younger
Middle East
- Murad II — sultan who crushed the crusaders at Varna, 7 years younger
- Mehmed I Çelebi — sultan who reunited the realm after Timur, 8 years older
Asia
- Sejong the Great — King of Joseon Korea, born the same year
- Zheng He — admiral and explorer, 26 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu — shogun who reunited the two imperial courts and built Kinkaku-ji, 39 years older
- Ulugh Beg — ruler and astronomer, 3 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshinori — shogun chosen by lot and murdered by his own vassal, 3 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshimochi — shogun who broke off tributary trade with Ming China, 11 years older
Americas
- Pachacuti — Sapa Inca, 21 years younger
- Nezahualcoyotl — ruler of Texcoco, poet, 5 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- c. 1400 Founding of Malacca — aged 3, Asia
- 1405–1433 Voyages of Zheng He — aged 8, Asia
- 1410 Battle of Grunwald — aged 13, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1411 Andrei Rublev's Trinity — aged 14, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1429 Joan of Arc relieves Orléans — aged 32, Europe
- c. 1438 Pachacuti founds the Inca Empire — aged 41, Americas