Henry I
1008 – 1060 · 52 years · Paris · Europe
Reign: 1031 – 1060 (Franks and France)
He fought rebellious vassals, among them his mother Constance and William of Normandy. His wife Anne, daughter of Yaroslav the Wise, bore his heir, Philip I.
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Portrait: Merry-Joseph Blondel · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Edward the Confessor — pious king who built Westminster Abbey, 5 years older
- William the Conqueror — Duke of Normandy, King of England, 20 years younger
- Cnut the Great — Danish king who ruled a North Sea empire, 13 years older
- Henry IV — emperor humbled at Canossa in his struggle with the pope, 42 years younger
- Henry III — emperor who deposed three rival popes at the Synod of Sutri, 8 years younger
- Conrad II — first Salian emperor, who added the Kingdom of Burgundy to the empire, 18 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Yaroslav the Wise — Grand Prince of Kiev, 30 years older
- Iziaslav I — prince of Kiev twice driven from his capital, 16 years younger
- Vsevolod I — prince of Kiev, father of Vladimir Monomakh, 22 years younger
- Sviatopolk the Accursed — prince of Kiev blamed by the chronicles for murdering Boris and Gleb, 28 years older
- Sviatopolk II — prince of Kiev, participant in the Congress of Liubech, 42 years younger
Middle East
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina) — physician and philosopher, 28 years older
- Ferdowsi — Persian poet, 68 years older
- Omar Khayyam — poet, mathematician, astronomer, 40 years younger
Asia
- Al-Biruni — polymath, 35 years older
- Shen Kuo — polymath, 23 years younger
- Sei Shōnagon — writer and court lady, 42 years older
Americas
- Leif Erikson — Norse explorer, 38 years older
The world in their lifetime
- c. 1010 The Tale of Genji — aged 2, Asia
- 1021 Norse in North America — aged 13, Americas
- 1025 Avicenna's Canon of Medicine — aged 17, Middle East
- c. 1037 Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev — aged 29, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1044 First gunpowder formulas in the Wujing Zongyao — aged 36, Asia
- 1054 East–West Schism — aged 46, Middle East
- 1054 Supernova SN 1054 — aged 46, Asia