Edward II
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1284 – 1327 · 43 years · London · Europe
Reign: 1307 – 1327 (England and Britain)
The first English Prince of Wales. In 1314 he was crushingly defeated by the Scots at Bannockburn; he ruled through favourites, was deposed by his wife Isabella and her lover Mortimer, and was probably murdered at Berkeley Castle.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Dante Alighieri — poet, author of the Divine Comedy, 19 years older
- Philip IV the Fair — king who destroyed the Knights Templar, 16 years older
- Edward I Longshanks — conqueror of Wales, called the Hammer of the Scots, 45 years older
- Edward III — king who began the Hundred Years' War and won at Crécy, 28 years younger
- Charles IV — emperor who made Prague an imperial capital and issued the Golden Bull, 32 years younger
- Giotto — painter and architect, 17 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan Kalita — prince who began the gathering of Russian lands around Moscow, 4 years younger
- Sergius of Radonezh — saint and abbot, 30 years younger
- Yury of Moscow — first Moscow prince to become grand prince of Vladimir, 3 years older
- Daniel of Moscow — first prince of Moscow, founder of the Moscow line of the Rurikids, 23 years older
- Simeon the Proud — grand prince "of all Rus" who died of the plague, 32 years younger
Middle East
Africa
- Mansa Musa — ruler of the Mali Empire, 4 years older
- Ibn Battuta — traveller, 20 years younger
Asia
- Marco Polo — Venetian traveller, 30 years older
- Kublai Khan — Great Khan, founder of the Yuan dynasty, 69 years older
- Emperor Go-Daigo — emperor who overthrew the Kamakura shogunate, 4 years younger
- Ashikaga Takauji — founder of the Muromachi shogunate who turned on Go-Daigo, 21 years younger
- Gajah Mada — prime minister of Majapahit, 6 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1293 Founding of Majapahit — aged 9, Asia
- c. 1300 Onset of the Little Ice Age — aged 16, Europe
- 1309–1377 Avignon Papacy — aged 25, Europe
- 1315–1317 Great Famine — aged 31, Europe
- 1324 Hajj of Mansa Musa — aged 40, Africa
- c. 1325 Founding of Tenochtitlan — aged 41, Americas
- c. 1327 The Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu — aged 43, Africa