Henry III
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1016 – 1056 · 40 years · Goslar · Europe
Reign: 1039 – 1056 (Holy Roman Empire & Austria)
The height of Salian power: at the Synod of Sutri in 1046 he removed three rival popes and went on to appoint German pontiffs himself, backing the Cluniac church reform. His favourite residence was the palace at Goslar.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Edward the Confessor — pious king who built Westminster Abbey, 13 years older
- William the Conqueror — Duke of Normandy, King of England, 12 years younger
- Cnut the Great — Danish king who ruled a North Sea empire, 21 years older
- Henry I — king who married Anne of Kiev, daughter of Yaroslav the Wise, 8 years older
- Conrad II — first Salian emperor, who added the Kingdom of Burgundy to the empire, 26 years older
- Robert II the Pious — pious king excommunicated for marrying a kinswoman, 44 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Yaroslav the Wise — Grand Prince of Kiev, 38 years older
- Iziaslav I — prince of Kiev twice driven from his capital, 8 years younger
- Vsevolod I — prince of Kiev, father of Vladimir Monomakh, 14 years younger
Middle East
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina) — physician and philosopher, 36 years older
Asia
The world in their lifetime
- 1021 Norse in North America — aged 5, Americas
- 1025 Avicenna's Canon of Medicine — aged 9, Middle East
- c. 1037 Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev — aged 21, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1044 First gunpowder formulas in the Wujing Zongyao — aged 28, Asia
- 1054 East–West Schism — aged 38, Middle East
- 1054 Supernova SN 1054 — aged 38, Asia