Henry VII
c. 1273 – 1313 · 40 years · Luxembourg · Europe
Reign: 1308 – 1313 (Holy Roman Empire & Austria)
A count of Luxembourg who made his son John king of Bohemia in 1310. He marched into Italy and in 1312 became the first emperor crowned in Rome since Frederick II, but died of malaria near Siena a year later; Dante reserved a throne for him in Paradise.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Dante Alighieri — poet, author of the Divine Comedy, 8 years older
- Philip IV the Fair — king who destroyed the Knights Templar, 5 years older
- Edward I Longshanks — conqueror of Wales, called the Hammer of the Scots, 34 years older
- Rudolf I — first Habsburg king, who won Austria for his house, 55 years older
- Giotto — painter and architect, 6 years older
- Albert I — Habsburg king murdered by his own nephew, John the Parricide, 18 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan Kalita — prince who began the gathering of Russian lands around Moscow, 15 years younger
- Yury of Moscow — first Moscow prince to become grand prince of Vladimir, 8 years younger
- Daniel of Moscow — first prince of Moscow, founder of the Moscow line of the Rurikids, 12 years older
Middle East
Africa
- Mansa Musa — ruler of the Mali Empire, 7 years younger
Asia
- Marco Polo — Venetian traveller, 19 years older
- Kublai Khan — Great Khan, founder of the Yuan dynasty, 58 years older
- Emperor Go-Daigo — emperor who overthrew the Kamakura shogunate, 15 years younger
- Gajah Mada — prime minister of Majapahit, 17 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- c. 1280 Polynesians settle New Zealand — aged 7, Oceania
- 1281 Kamikaze, the divine wind — aged 8, Asia
- 1293 Founding of Majapahit — aged 20, Asia
- c. 1300 Onset of the Little Ice Age — aged 27, Europe
- 1309–1377 Avignon Papacy — aged 36, Europe