Iziaslav I
1024 – 1078 · 54 years · Kiev · Eastern Europe & Russia
Reign: 1054 – 1078 (Rus and Russia)
Eldest son of Yaroslav the Wise; together with his brothers he expanded the Russkaya Pravda law code. After the 1068 uprising and quarrels with his brothers he twice lost Kiev, and fell at the Battle of Nezhatina Niva.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- William the Conqueror — Duke of Normandy, King of England, 4 years younger
- Edward the Confessor — pious king who built Westminster Abbey, 21 years older
- Henry IV — emperor humbled at Canossa in his struggle with the pope, 26 years younger
- Cnut the Great — Danish king who ruled a North Sea empire, 29 years older
- Henry I — king who married Anne of Kiev, daughter of Yaroslav the Wise, 16 years older
- Henry III — emperor who deposed three rival popes at the Synod of Sutri, 8 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Yaroslav the Wise — Grand Prince of Kiev, 46 years older
- Vladimir II Monomakh — Grand Prince of Kiev, 29 years younger
- Vsevolod I — prince of Kiev, father of Vladimir Monomakh, 6 years younger
- Sviatopolk II — prince of Kiev, participant in the Congress of Liubech, 26 years younger
- Nestor the Chronicler — monk and chronicler, 32 years younger
Middle East
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina) — physician and philosopher, 44 years older
- Omar Khayyam — poet, mathematician, astronomer, 24 years younger
- Al-Ghazali — Islamic theologian and philosopher, 34 years younger
Asia
The world in their lifetime
- 1025 Avicenna's Canon of Medicine — aged 1, Middle East
- c. 1037 Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev — aged 13, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1044 First gunpowder formulas in the Wujing Zongyao — aged 20, Asia
- 1054 East–West Schism — aged 30, Middle East
- 1054 Supernova SN 1054 — aged 30, Asia
- 1066 Battle of Hastings — aged 42, Europe
- 1066 Halley's Comet over England — aged 42, Europe
- c. 1070 The Almoravids found Marrakesh — aged 46, Africa
- 1077 Walk to Canossa — aged 53, Europe