Charles VII
1403 – 1461 · 58 years · Paris · Europe
Reign: 1422 – 1461 (Franks and France)
Thanks to Joan of Arc he was crowned at Reims in 1429. He created the first standing army and by 1453 had driven the English from all of France except Calais.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Johannes Gutenberg — inventor of the printing press, 3 years older
- Joan of Arc — heroine of the Hundred Years' War, 9 years younger
- Louis XI — the "universal spider" who pieced France together, 20 years younger
- Sigismund — emperor of the Council of Constance that ended the Schism and burned Hus, 35 years older
- Henry V — victor of Agincourt who became heir to the French crown, 17 years older
- Isabella I of Castile — Queen of Castile, 48 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Andrei Rublev — icon painter, 43 years older
- Ivan III — Grand Prince of Moscow, 37 years younger
- Vasily II the Blind — grand prince blinded in a dynastic civil war, 12 years younger
- Vasily I — grand prince who annexed Nizhny Novgorod, 32 years older
Middle East
- Mehmed II — Ottoman sultan, 29 years younger
- Murad II — sultan who crushed the crusaders at Varna, 1 year younger
- Mehmed I Çelebi — sultan who reunited the realm after Timur, 14 years older
- Bayezid II — sultan who took in the Jews expelled from Spain, 44 years younger
Africa
- Askia Muhammad I — Emperor of Songhai, 40 years younger
Asia
- Sejong the Great — King of Joseon Korea, 6 years older
- Zheng He — admiral and explorer, 32 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa — shogun of the Ōnin War and the Silver Pavilion, 33 years younger
- Ulugh Beg — ruler and astronomer, 9 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshinori — shogun chosen by lot and murdered by his own vassal, 9 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshimochi — shogun who broke off tributary trade with Ming China, 17 years older
Americas
- Christopher Columbus — navigator, 48 years younger
- Pachacuti — Sapa Inca, 15 years younger
- Nezahualcoyotl — ruler of Texcoco, poet, 1 year older
The world in their lifetime
- 1405–1433 Voyages of Zheng He — aged 2, Asia
- 1410 Battle of Grunwald — aged 7, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1411 Andrei Rublev's Trinity — aged 8, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1429 Joan of Arc relieves Orléans — aged 26, Europe
- c. 1438 Pachacuti founds the Inca Empire — aged 35, Americas
- c. 1445 Extinction of the moa — aged 42, Oceania
- 1446 King Sejong promulgates Hangul — aged 43, Asia
- c. 1450 Gutenberg's printing press — aged 47, Europe
- c. 1450 Building of Machu Picchu — aged 47, Americas
- c. 1450 Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy — aged 47, Americas
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — aged 50, Middle East