Edward I Longshanks
1239 – 1307 · 68 years · London · Europe
Reign: 1272 – 1307 (England and Britain)
He conquered Wales and ringed it with stone castles, and fought long wars against Scotland, earning the name Hammer of the Scots. He summoned the Model Parliament of 1295 and expelled the Jews from England in 1290.
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Portrait: Remiguis Goebel · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Dante Alighieri — poet, author of the Divine Comedy, 26 years younger
- Rudolf I — first Habsburg king, who won Austria for his house, 21 years older
- Philip IV the Fair — king who destroyed the Knights Templar, 29 years younger
- Thomas Aquinas — theologian and philosopher, 14 years older
- Saint Louis (Louis IX) — crusader king canonised as a saint, 25 years older
- Frederick II — "Wonder of the World", polyglot emperor who regained Jerusalem without a fight, 45 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Alexander Nevsky — Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince, 18 years older
- Ivan Kalita — prince who began the gathering of Russian lands around Moscow, 49 years younger
- Daniel of Moscow — first prince of Moscow, founder of the Moscow line of the Rurikids, 22 years younger
- Yury of Moscow — first Moscow prince to become grand prince of Vladimir, 42 years younger
Middle East
Africa
- Mansa Musa — ruler of the Mali Empire, 41 years younger
- Sundiata Keita — founder of the Mali Empire, 22 years older
Asia
- Kublai Khan — Great Khan, founder of the Yuan dynasty, 24 years older
- Marco Polo — Venetian traveller, 15 years younger
- Emperor Go-Daigo — emperor who overthrew the Kamakura shogunate, 49 years younger
- Gajah Mada — prime minister of Majapahit, 51 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1240 Batu Khan takes Kiev — aged 1, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1242 The Golden Horde is founded — aged 3, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1250 The moai of Easter Island — aged 11, Oceania
- c. 1251 The Tripitaka Koreana — aged 12, Asia
- 1257 Samalas eruption — aged 18, Asia
- 1258 Mongol sack of Baghdad — aged 19, Middle East
- 1271 Kublai Khan founds the Yuan dynasty — aged 32, Asia
- 1271–1295 Travels of Marco Polo — aged 32, Asia
- c. 1280 Polynesians settle New Zealand — aged 41, Oceania
- 1281 Kamikaze, the divine wind — aged 42, Asia
- 1293 Founding of Majapahit — aged 54, Asia
- c. 1300 Onset of the Little Ice Age — aged 61, Europe