Edward III
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1312 – 1377 · 65 years · London · Europe
Reign: 1327 – 1377 (England and Britain)
Reigned for 50 years. In 1337 he claimed the French throne and started the Hundred Years' War; his archers routed the French at Crécy in 1346. He founded the Order of the Garter, and the Black Death struck during his reign.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Charles IV — emperor who made Prague an imperial capital and issued the Golden Bull, 4 years younger
- Richard II — boy king who faced down the Peasants' Revolt and was deposed by his cousin, 55 years younger
- Petrarch — humanist poet, 8 years older
- John II the Good — king captured by the English at Poitiers, 7 years younger
- Charles V the Wise — king who regained most of what was lost in the Hundred Years’ War, 26 years younger
- Philip VI — first Valois king, defeated at Crécy, 19 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Sergius of Radonezh — saint and abbot, 2 years younger
- Ivan Kalita — prince who began the gathering of Russian lands around Moscow, 24 years older
- Dmitry Donskoy — Grand Prince of Moscow, 38 years younger
- Andrei Rublev — icon painter, 48 years younger
- Simeon the Proud — grand prince "of all Rus" who died of the plague, 4 years younger
- Ivan II the Fair — grand prince of Moscow, father of Dmitry Donskoy, 14 years younger
Middle East
- Murad I — sultan who took Adrianople and fell at Kosovo, 14 years younger
- Orhan — bey who took Bursa and led the Ottomans into Europe, 31 years older
- Bayezid I the Thunderbolt — sultan defeated and captured by Timur at Ankara, 48 years younger
- Osman I — founder of the Ottoman Empire, 54 years older
- Hafez — Persian poet, 13 years younger
Africa
- Ibn Battuta — traveller, 8 years older
- Ibn Khaldun — historian and thinker, 20 years younger
- Mansa Musa — ruler of the Mali Empire, 32 years older
Asia
- Timur — emir and conqueror, 24 years younger
- Marco Polo — Venetian traveller, 58 years older
- Ashikaga Takauji — founder of the Muromachi shogunate who turned on Go-Daigo, 7 years older
- Emperor Go-Daigo — emperor who overthrew the Kamakura shogunate, 24 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu — shogun who reunited the two imperial courts and built Kinkaku-ji, 46 years younger
- Gajah Mada — prime minister of Majapahit, 22 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1315–1317 Great Famine — aged 3, Europe
- 1324 Hajj of Mansa Musa — aged 12, Africa
- c. 1325 Founding of Tenochtitlan — aged 13, Americas
- c. 1327 The Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu — aged 15, Africa
- 1337–1453 Hundred Years' War — aged 25, Europe
- c. 1337 Sergius of Radonezh founds his monastery — aged 25, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1347–1351 Black Death — aged 35, Europe
- 1368 Founding of the Ming dynasty — aged 56, Asia
- 1370 Timur makes Samarkand his capital — aged 58, Asia
- 1377 Jikji, printed with movable metal type — aged 65, Asia