Francis of Assisi
c. 1182 – 1226 · 44 years · Assisi · Europe
A rich merchant's son who renounced wealth for poverty and preaching, and founded the Franciscan order.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 13th century
Portrait: Parzi · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Philip II Augustus — king who took Normandy from the Plantagenets, 17 years older
- John Lackland — King of England who sealed Magna Carta, 16 years older
- Frederick II — "Wonder of the World", polyglot emperor who regained Jerusalem without a fight, 12 years younger
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) — philosopher, commentator on Aristotle, 56 years older
- Saint Louis (Louis IX) — crusader king canonised as a saint, 32 years younger
- Fibonacci — mathematician, 12 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Vsevolod the Big Nest — grand prince under whom Vladimir became the strongest power in Rus, 28 years older
- Yuri II of Vladimir — grand prince of Vladimir killed fighting the Mongols on the Sit, 7 years younger
- Yaroslav II of Vladimir — first Russian prince to receive a patent to rule from the Horde, 9 years younger
Middle East
- Rumi — Sufi poet, 25 years younger
- Richard the Lionheart — King of England, crusader, 25 years older
- Tamar of Georgia — Queen of Georgia, 16 years older
Africa
- Saladin — Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 45 years older
- Maimonides — philosopher, rabbi and physician, 44 years older
Asia
- Genghis Khan — founder of the Mongol Empire, 20 years older
- Kublai Khan — Great Khan, founder of the Yuan dynasty, 33 years younger
- Minamoto no Yoritomo — first shogun of Japan, 35 years older
- Jayavarman VII — King of the Khmer Empire, 60 years older
- Razia Sultana — Sultan of Delhi, 23 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1185 Prince Igor's campaign — aged 3, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1192–1333 First shogunate in Japan — aged 10, Asia
- 1202 Fibonacci's Liber Abaci — aged 20, Europe
- 1204 Sack of Constantinople — aged 22, Europe
- 1206 Temüjin proclaimed Genghis Khan — aged 24, Asia
- 1206 Founding of the Delhi Sultanate — aged 24, Asia
- 1215 Magna Carta — aged 33, Europe
- 1223 Battle of the Kalka River — aged 41, Eastern Europe & Russia