Conrad III
c. 1093 – 1152 · 59 years · Bamberg · Europe
Reign: 1138 – 1152 (Holy Roman Empire & Austria)
The first Staufer king, never crowned emperor. In 1147 he led the German army on the Second Crusade, was routed by the Seljuk Turks near Dorylaeum and came home empty-handed after the failed siege of Damascus.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Hildegard of Bingen — abbess, mystic and composer, 5 years younger
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) — philosopher, commentator on Aristotle, 33 years younger
- Henry II — first Plantagenet, builder of the Angevin Empire and of common law, 40 years younger
- Henry IV — emperor humbled at Canossa in his struggle with the pope, 43 years older
- Stephen of Blois — king of the Anarchy, the civil war with Empress Matilda, 1 year younger
- Lothair III — Saxon duke elected by the princes in preference to the Staufer, 18 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Yuri Dolgoruky — prince of Rostov-Suzdal, founder of Moscow, 6 years younger
- Andrey Bogolyubsky — prince who moved the centre of Rus to Vladimir, 18 years younger
- Vladimir II Monomakh — Grand Prince of Kiev, 40 years older
- Mstislav the Great — last ruler of a united Kievan Rus, 17 years older
- Nestor the Chronicler — monk and chronicler, 37 years older
- Sviatopolk II — prince of Kiev, participant in the Congress of Liubech, 43 years older
Middle East
- Omar Khayyam — poet, mathematician, astronomer, 45 years older
- Anna Komnene — Byzantine princess and historian, 10 years older
- Al-Ghazali — Islamic theologian and philosopher, 35 years older
Africa
- Saladin — Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 44 years younger
- Maimonides — philosopher, rabbi and physician, 45 years younger
Asia
- Li Qingzhao — Song dynasty poet, 9 years older
- Jayavarman VII — King of the Khmer Empire, 29 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1099 Crusaders capture Jerusalem — aged 6, Middle East
- c. 1113–1150 Construction of Angkor Wat — aged 20, Asia
- 1113 Vladimir Monomakh in Kiev — aged 20, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1113 The Primary Chronicle — aged 20, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1136 The Novgorod Republic — aged 43, Eastern Europe & Russia