Charles IV the Fair
1294 – 1328 · 34 years · Paris · Europe
Reign: 1322 – 1328 (Franks and France)
Youngest son of Philip IV; like his brothers, he died without sons. The dispute over his inheritance between Philip of Valois and Edward III of England led to the Hundred Years’ War.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Dante Alighieri — poet, author of the Divine Comedy, 29 years older
- Philip IV the Fair — king who destroyed the Knights Templar, 26 years older
- Edward III — king who began the Hundred Years' War and won at Crécy, 18 years younger
- Edward I Longshanks — conqueror of Wales, called the Hammer of the Scots, 55 years older
- Charles IV — emperor who made Prague an imperial capital and issued the Golden Bull, 22 years younger
- Giotto — painter and architect, 27 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan Kalita — prince who began the gathering of Russian lands around Moscow, 6 years older
- Sergius of Radonezh — saint and abbot, 20 years younger
- Yury of Moscow — first Moscow prince to become grand prince of Vladimir, 13 years older
- Simeon the Proud — grand prince "of all Rus" who died of the plague, 22 years younger
Middle East
Africa
- Mansa Musa — ruler of the Mali Empire, 14 years older
- Ibn Battuta — traveller, 10 years younger
Asia
- Marco Polo — Venetian traveller, 40 years older
- Emperor Go-Daigo — emperor who overthrew the Kamakura shogunate, 6 years older
- Ashikaga Takauji — founder of the Muromachi shogunate who turned on Go-Daigo, 11 years younger
- Gajah Mada — prime minister of Majapahit, 4 years older
The world in their lifetime
- c. 1300 Onset of the Little Ice Age — aged 6, Europe
- 1309–1377 Avignon Papacy — aged 15, Europe
- 1315–1317 Great Famine — aged 21, Europe
- 1324 Hajj of Mansa Musa — aged 30, Africa
- c. 1325 Founding of Tenochtitlan — aged 31, Americas
- c. 1327 The Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu — aged 33, Africa