Louis the Bavarian
1282 – 1347 · 65 years · Munich · Europe
Reign: 1314 – 1347 (Holy Roman Empire & Austria)
A Wittelsbach who beat his rival Frederick the Fair at Mühldorf in 1322. Excommunicated by Pope John XXII, he was crowned in Rome by the Roman nobility in 1328, and in 1338 the electors at Rhens declared that their choice needed no papal approval.
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Portrait: Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Dante Alighieri — poet, author of the Divine Comedy, 17 years older
- Edward III — king who began the Hundred Years' War and won at Crécy, 30 years younger
- Philip IV the Fair — king who destroyed the Knights Templar, 14 years older
- Charles IV — emperor who made Prague an imperial capital and issued the Golden Bull, 34 years younger
- Edward I Longshanks — conqueror of Wales, called the Hammer of the Scots, 43 years older
- Giotto — painter and architect, 15 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan Kalita — prince who began the gathering of Russian lands around Moscow, 6 years younger
- Sergius of Radonezh — saint and abbot, 32 years younger
- Yury of Moscow — first Moscow prince to become grand prince of Vladimir, 1 year older
- Simeon the Proud — grand prince "of all Rus" who died of the plague, 34 years younger
- Daniel of Moscow — first prince of Moscow, founder of the Moscow line of the Rurikids, 21 years older
- Ivan II the Fair — grand prince of Moscow, father of Dmitry Donskoy, 44 years younger
Middle East
Africa
- Mansa Musa — ruler of the Mali Empire, 2 years older
- Ibn Battuta — traveller, 22 years younger
- Ibn Khaldun — historian and thinker, 50 years younger
Asia
- Marco Polo — Venetian traveller, 28 years older
- Kublai Khan — Great Khan, founder of the Yuan dynasty, 67 years older
- Timur — emir and conqueror, 54 years younger
- Emperor Go-Daigo — emperor who overthrew the Kamakura shogunate, 6 years younger
- Ashikaga Takauji — founder of the Muromachi shogunate who turned on Go-Daigo, 23 years younger
- Gajah Mada — prime minister of Majapahit, 8 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1293 Founding of Majapahit — aged 11, Asia
- c. 1300 Onset of the Little Ice Age — aged 18, Europe
- 1309–1377 Avignon Papacy — aged 27, Europe
- 1315–1317 Great Famine — aged 33, Europe
- 1324 Hajj of Mansa Musa — aged 42, Africa
- c. 1325 Founding of Tenochtitlan — aged 43, Americas
- c. 1327 The Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu — aged 45, Africa
- 1337–1453 Hundred Years' War — aged 55, Europe
- c. 1337 Sergius of Radonezh founds his monastery — aged 55, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1347–1351 Black Death — aged 65, Europe