Henry I Beauclerc
c. 1068 – 1135 · 67 years · London · Europe
Reign: 1100 – 1135 (England and Britain)
Youngest son of William the Conqueror. He issued the Charter of Liberties, created the Exchequer and strengthened royal justice; the loss of his heir in the White Ship in 1120 led to civil war after his death.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Henry IV — emperor humbled at Canossa in his struggle with the pope, 18 years older
- Hildegard of Bingen — abbess, mystic and composer, 30 years younger
- William the Conqueror — Duke of Normandy, King of England, 40 years older
- Lothair III — Saxon duke elected by the princes in preference to the Staufer, 7 years younger
- Louis VI the Fat — king who tamed the barons around Paris, 13 years younger
- Conrad III — first Staufer king, unlucky leader in the Second Crusade, 25 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Vladimir II Monomakh — Grand Prince of Kiev, 15 years older
- Yuri Dolgoruky — prince of Rostov-Suzdal, founder of Moscow, 31 years younger
- Andrey Bogolyubsky — prince who moved the centre of Rus to Vladimir, 43 years younger
- Mstislav the Great — last ruler of a united Kievan Rus, 8 years younger
- Nestor the Chronicler — monk and chronicler, 12 years older
- Sviatopolk II — prince of Kiev, participant in the Congress of Liubech, 18 years older
Middle East
- Omar Khayyam — poet, mathematician, astronomer, 20 years older
- Anna Komnene — Byzantine princess and historian, 15 years younger
- Al-Ghazali — Islamic theologian and philosopher, 10 years older
Asia
- Li Qingzhao — Song dynasty poet, 16 years younger
- Shen Kuo — polymath, 37 years older
- Jayavarman VII — King of the Khmer Empire, 54 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- c. 1070 The Almoravids found Marrakesh — aged 2, Africa
- 1077 Walk to Canossa — aged 9, Europe
- c. 1088 University of Bologna — aged 20, Europe
- 1099 Crusaders capture Jerusalem — aged 31, Middle East
- c. 1113–1150 Construction of Angkor Wat — aged 45, Asia
- 1113 Vladimir Monomakh in Kiev — aged 45, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1113 The Primary Chronicle — aged 45, Eastern Europe & Russia