Joan of Arc
c. 1412 – 1431 · 19 years · Orléans · Europe
A peasant girl who lifted the siege of Orléans and led the Dauphin to his coronation; burned at the stake by the English.
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Portrait: Clément de Fauquembergue · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Johannes Gutenberg — inventor of the printing press, 12 years older
- Sigismund — emperor of the Council of Constance that ended the Schism and burned Hus, 44 years older
- Charles VII — king under whom the Hundred Years’ War ended, 9 years older
- Henry V — victor of Agincourt who became heir to the French crown, 26 years older
- Albert II — first Habsburg to unite Austria, Bohemia and Hungary, 15 years older
- Christine de Pizan — writer, 48 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Andrei Rublev — icon painter, 52 years older
- Vasily II the Blind — grand prince blinded in a dynastic civil war, 3 years younger
- Vasily I — grand prince who annexed Nizhny Novgorod, 41 years older
Middle East
- Murad II — sultan who crushed the crusaders at Varna, 8 years older
Asia
- Zheng He — admiral and explorer, 41 years older
- Sejong the Great — King of Joseon Korea, 15 years older
- Ulugh Beg — ruler and astronomer, 18 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshinori — shogun chosen by lot and murdered by his own vassal, 18 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshimochi — shogun who broke off tributary trade with Ming China, 26 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshikazu — young shogun who died two years after taking office, 5 years older
Americas
- Pachacuti — Sapa Inca, 6 years younger
- Nezahualcoyotl — ruler of Texcoco, poet, 10 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1429 Joan of Arc relieves Orléans — aged 17, Europe