Frederick Barbarossa
1122 – 1190 · 68 years · Frankfurt · Europe
Reign: 1152 – 1190 (Holy Roman Empire & Austria)
Emperor who fought for decades to dominate Italy; he drowned in a river while leading the Third Crusade.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) — philosopher, commentator on Aristotle, 4 years younger
- Hildegard of Bingen — abbess, mystic and composer, 24 years older
- Henry II — first Plantagenet, builder of the Angevin Empire and of common law, 11 years younger
- Philip II Augustus — king who took Normandy from the Plantagenets, 43 years younger
- John Lackland — King of England who sealed Magna Carta, 44 years younger
- Eleanor of Aquitaine — Queen of France and of England, 2 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Andrey Bogolyubsky — prince who moved the centre of Rus to Vladimir, 11 years older
- Vsevolod the Big Nest — grand prince under whom Vladimir became the strongest power in Rus, 32 years younger
- Yuri Dolgoruky — prince of Rostov-Suzdal, founder of Moscow, 23 years older
- Mstislav the Great — last ruler of a united Kievan Rus, 46 years older
Middle East
- Richard the Lionheart — King of England, crusader, 35 years younger
- Anna Komnene — Byzantine princess and historian, 39 years older
- Tamar of Georgia — Queen of Georgia, 44 years younger
Africa
- Saladin — Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 15 years younger
- Maimonides — philosopher, rabbi and physician, 16 years younger
Asia
- Genghis Khan — founder of the Mongol Empire, 40 years younger
- Minamoto no Yoritomo — first shogun of Japan, 25 years younger
- Jayavarman VII — King of the Khmer Empire, born the same year
- Li Qingzhao — Song dynasty poet, 38 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1136 The Novgorod Republic — aged 14, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1163–1345 Notre-Dame de Paris begun — aged 41, Europe
- 1185 Prince Igor's campaign — aged 63, Eastern Europe & Russia