Dmitry Donskoy

Grand Prince of Moscow

1350 – 1389 · 39 years · Moscow · Eastern Europe & Russia

Reign: 1359 – 1389 (Rus and Russia)

Grand Prince who defeated Mamai's army at Kulikovo in 1380; he built Moscow's first white-stone Kremlin.

Portrait: Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Contemporaries around the world

Charles IV — emperor who made Prague an imperial capital and issued the Golden Bull, 34 years older
Edward III — king who began the Hundred Years' War and won at Crécy, 38 years older
Richard II — boy king who faced down the Peasants' Revolt and was deposed by his cousin, 17 years younger
Sigismund — emperor of the Council of Constance that ended the Schism and burned Hus, 18 years younger
Geoffrey Chaucer — poet, author of The Canterbury Tales, 7 years older
Rupert of the Palatinate — Elector Palatine chosen to replace the deposed Wenceslaus, 2 years younger

Murad I — sultan who took Adrianople and fell at Kosovo, 24 years older
Bayezid I the Thunderbolt — sultan defeated and captured by Timur at Ankara, 10 years younger
Orhan — bey who took Bursa and led the Ottomans into Europe, 69 years older
Hafez — Persian poet, 25 years older

Timur — emir and conqueror, 14 years older
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu — shogun who reunited the two imperial courts and built Kinkaku-ji, 8 years younger
Zheng He — admiral and explorer, 21 years younger
Ashikaga Yoshiakira — second Ashikaga shogun, who held Kyoto against the Southern Court, 20 years older
Gajah Mada — prime minister of Majapahit, 60 years older