Ivan II the Fair
1326 – 1359 · 33 years · Moscow · Eastern Europe & Russia
Reign: 1353 – 1359 (Rus and Russia)
Son of Ivan Kalita who succeeded his brother Simeon after the plague. He ruled cautiously and peacefully, relying on Metropolitan Alexius, who after his death became guardian of the young Dmitry Donskoy.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Edward III — king who began the Hundred Years' War and won at Crécy, 14 years older
- Charles IV — emperor who made Prague an imperial capital and issued the Golden Bull, 10 years older
- Petrarch — humanist poet, 22 years older
- John II the Good — king captured by the English at Poitiers, 7 years older
- Philip VI — first Valois king, defeated at Crécy, 33 years older
- Louis the Bavarian — emperor excommunicated by the pope and crowned in Rome without him, 44 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Sergius of Radonezh — saint and abbot, 12 years older
- Ivan Kalita — prince who began the gathering of Russian lands around Moscow, 38 years older
- Simeon the Proud — grand prince "of all Rus" who died of the plague, 10 years older
Middle East
Africa
- Ibn Battuta — traveller, 22 years older
- Ibn Khaldun — historian and thinker, 6 years younger
- Mansa Musa — ruler of the Mali Empire, 46 years older
Asia
- Timur — emir and conqueror, 10 years younger
- Ashikaga Takauji — founder of the Muromachi shogunate who turned on Go-Daigo, 21 years older
- Emperor Go-Daigo — emperor who overthrew the Kamakura shogunate, 38 years older
- Gajah Mada — prime minister of Majapahit, 36 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshiakira — second Ashikaga shogun, who held Kyoto against the Southern Court, 4 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- c. 1327 The Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu — aged 1, Africa
- 1337–1453 Hundred Years' War — aged 11, Europe
- c. 1337 Sergius of Radonezh founds his monastery — aged 11, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1347–1351 Black Death — aged 21, Europe