Henry V
1386 – 1422 · 36 years · London · Europe
Reign: 1413 – 1422 (England and Britain)
He renewed the Hundred Years' War and in 1415 crushed a much larger French army at Agincourt. Under the Treaty of Troyes in 1420 he married Catherine of Valois and was recognised as heir to the French king, but he died at 35.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Johannes Gutenberg — inventor of the printing press, 14 years younger
- Joan of Arc — heroine of the Hundred Years' War, 26 years younger
- Sigismund — emperor of the Council of Constance that ended the Schism and burned Hus, 18 years older
- Charles VII — king under whom the Hundred Years’ War ended, 17 years younger
- Richard II — boy king who faced down the Peasants' Revolt and was deposed by his cousin, 19 years older
- Christine de Pizan — writer, 22 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Andrei Rublev — icon painter, 26 years older
- Vasily I — grand prince who annexed Nizhny Novgorod, 15 years older
Middle East
- Murad II — sultan who crushed the crusaders at Varna, 18 years younger
- Bayezid I the Thunderbolt — sultan defeated and captured by Timur at Ankara, 26 years older
- Mehmed I Çelebi — sultan who reunited the realm after Timur, 3 years younger
Africa
- Ibn Khaldun — historian and thinker, 54 years older
Asia
- Timur — emir and conqueror, 50 years older
- Zheng He — admiral and explorer, 15 years older
- Sejong the Great — King of Joseon Korea, 11 years younger
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu — shogun who reunited the two imperial courts and built Kinkaku-ji, 28 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshimochi — shogun who broke off tributary trade with Ming China, born the same year
- Ulugh Beg — ruler and astronomer, 8 years younger
Americas
- Nezahualcoyotl — ruler of Texcoco, poet, 16 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1392 Founding of Joseon — aged 6, Asia
- c. 1400 Founding of Malacca — aged 14, Asia
- 1405–1433 Voyages of Zheng He — aged 19, Asia
- 1410 Battle of Grunwald — aged 24, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1411 Andrei Rublev's Trinity — aged 25, Eastern Europe & Russia