Henry V
c. 1086 – 1125 · 39 years · Speyer · Europe
Reign: 1105 – 1125 (Holy Roman Empire & Austria)
He overthrew his father Henry IV, seized Pope Paschal II in 1111 to force his imperial coronation, and in 1122 agreed the Concordat of Worms, splitting the secular and spiritual investiture of bishops. Married to Matilda of England, he died childless.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Hildegard of Bingen — abbess, mystic and composer, 12 years younger
- Henry IV — emperor humbled at Canossa in his struggle with the pope, 36 years older
- Henry I Beauclerc — law-giving king who created the Exchequer and the Charter of Liberties, 18 years older
- Lothair III — Saxon duke elected by the princes in preference to the Staufer, 11 years older
- Louis VI the Fat — king who tamed the barons around Paris, 5 years older
- Conrad III — first Staufer king, unlucky leader in the Second Crusade, 7 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Vladimir II Monomakh — Grand Prince of Kiev, 33 years older
- Yuri Dolgoruky — prince of Rostov-Suzdal, founder of Moscow, 13 years younger
- Andrey Bogolyubsky — prince who moved the centre of Rus to Vladimir, 25 years younger
- Mstislav the Great — last ruler of a united Kievan Rus, 10 years older
- Nestor the Chronicler — monk and chronicler, 30 years older
- Sviatopolk II — prince of Kiev, participant in the Congress of Liubech, 36 years older
Middle East
- Omar Khayyam — poet, mathematician, astronomer, 38 years older
- Anna Komnene — Byzantine princess and historian, 3 years older
- Al-Ghazali — Islamic theologian and philosopher, 28 years older
Asia
- Li Qingzhao — Song dynasty poet, 2 years older
The world in their lifetime
- c. 1088 University of Bologna — aged 2, Europe
- 1099 Crusaders capture Jerusalem — aged 13, Middle East
- c. 1113–1150 Construction of Angkor Wat — aged 27, Asia
- 1113 Vladimir Monomakh in Kiev — aged 27, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1113 The Primary Chronicle — aged 27, Eastern Europe & Russia