Charles V the Wise
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1338 – 1380 · 42 years · Paris · Europe
Reign: 1364 – 1380 (Franks and France)
With Constable Bertrand du Guesclin he avoided pitched battles and won back most of the lands lost to England. He began the Bastille and gathered the royal library in the Louvre.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Charles IV — emperor who made Prague an imperial capital and issued the Golden Bull, 22 years older
- Edward III — king who began the Hundred Years' War and won at Crécy, 26 years older
- Richard II — boy king who faced down the Peasants' Revolt and was deposed by his cousin, 29 years younger
- Sigismund — emperor of the Council of Constance that ended the Schism and burned Hus, 30 years younger
- Geoffrey Chaucer — poet, author of The Canterbury Tales, 5 years younger
- Petrarch — humanist poet, 34 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Sergius of Radonezh — saint and abbot, 24 years older
- Dmitry Donskoy — Grand Prince of Moscow, 12 years younger
- Andrei Rublev — icon painter, 22 years younger
- Ivan II the Fair — grand prince of Moscow, father of Dmitry Donskoy, 12 years older
- Simeon the Proud — grand prince "of all Rus" who died of the plague, 22 years older
Middle East
- Murad I — sultan who took Adrianople and fell at Kosovo, 12 years older
- Orhan — bey who took Bursa and led the Ottomans into Europe, 57 years older
- Bayezid I the Thunderbolt — sultan defeated and captured by Timur at Ankara, 22 years younger
- Hafez — Persian poet, 13 years older
Africa
- Ibn Khaldun — historian and thinker, 6 years older
- Ibn Battuta — traveller, 34 years older
Asia
- Timur — emir and conqueror, 2 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu — shogun who reunited the two imperial courts and built Kinkaku-ji, 20 years younger
- Ashikaga Takauji — founder of the Muromachi shogunate who turned on Go-Daigo, 33 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshiakira — second Ashikaga shogun, who held Kyoto against the Southern Court, 8 years older
- Gajah Mada — prime minister of Majapahit, 48 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1347–1351 Black Death — aged 9, Europe
- 1368 Founding of the Ming dynasty — aged 30, Asia
- 1370 Timur makes Samarkand his capital — aged 32, Asia
- 1377 Jikji, printed with movable metal type — aged 39, Asia
- 1380 Battle of Kulikovo — aged 42, Eastern Europe & Russia