Hildegard of Bingen
1098 – 1179 · 81 years · Bingen · Europe
Benedictine abbess who recorded her visions, wrote on medicine and nature, and is one of the earliest known composers.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 12th century
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) — philosopher, commentator on Aristotle, 28 years younger
- Henry II — first Plantagenet, builder of the Angevin Empire and of common law, 35 years younger
- Philip II Augustus — king who took Normandy from the Plantagenets, 67 years younger
- John Lackland — King of England who sealed Magna Carta, 68 years younger
- Louis VII the Young — Second Crusade leader and first husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine, 22 years younger
- Frederick Barbarossa — Holy Roman Emperor, 24 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Andrey Bogolyubsky — prince who moved the centre of Rus to Vladimir, 13 years younger
- Yuri Dolgoruky — prince of Rostov-Suzdal, founder of Moscow, 1 year younger
- Vladimir II Monomakh — Grand Prince of Kiev, 45 years older
- Vsevolod the Big Nest — grand prince under whom Vladimir became the strongest power in Rus, 56 years younger
- Mstislav the Great — last ruler of a united Kievan Rus, 22 years older
- Nestor the Chronicler — monk and chronicler, 42 years older
Middle East
- Omar Khayyam — poet, mathematician, astronomer, 50 years older
- Richard the Lionheart — King of England, crusader, 59 years younger
- Anna Komnene — Byzantine princess and historian, 15 years older
- Al-Ghazali — Islamic theologian and philosopher, 40 years older
- Tamar of Georgia — Queen of Georgia, 68 years younger
Africa
- Saladin — Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 39 years younger
- Maimonides — philosopher, rabbi and physician, 40 years younger
Asia
- Genghis Khan — founder of the Mongol Empire, 64 years younger
- Minamoto no Yoritomo — first shogun of Japan, 49 years younger
- Li Qingzhao — Song dynasty poet, 14 years older
- Jayavarman VII — King of the Khmer Empire, 24 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1099 Crusaders capture Jerusalem — aged 1, Middle East
- c. 1113–1150 Construction of Angkor Wat — aged 15, Asia
- 1113 Vladimir Monomakh in Kiev — aged 15, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1113 The Primary Chronicle — aged 15, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1136 The Novgorod Republic — aged 38, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1163–1345 Notre-Dame de Paris begun — aged 65, Europe