Louis VI the Fat
1081 – 1137 · 56 years · Paris · Europe
Reign: 1108 – 1137 (Franks and France)
With Abbot Suger as adviser he subdued the unruly lords of the royal domain and strengthened Capetian power. He married his son to Eleanor of Aquitaine, hoping to gain her vast lands.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Hildegard of Bingen — abbess, mystic and composer, 17 years younger
- Henry IV — emperor humbled at Canossa in his struggle with the pope, 31 years older
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) — philosopher, commentator on Aristotle, 45 years younger
- Lothair III — Saxon duke elected by the princes in preference to the Staufer, 6 years older
- Henry I Beauclerc — law-giving king who created the Exchequer and the Charter of Liberties, 13 years older
- Conrad III — first Staufer king, unlucky leader in the Second Crusade, 12 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Vladimir II Monomakh — Grand Prince of Kiev, 28 years older
- Yuri Dolgoruky — prince of Rostov-Suzdal, founder of Moscow, 18 years younger
- Andrey Bogolyubsky — prince who moved the centre of Rus to Vladimir, 30 years younger
- Mstislav the Great — last ruler of a united Kievan Rus, 5 years older
- Nestor the Chronicler — monk and chronicler, 25 years older
- Sviatopolk II — prince of Kiev, participant in the Congress of Liubech, 31 years older
Middle East
- Omar Khayyam — poet, mathematician, astronomer, 33 years older
- Anna Komnene — Byzantine princess and historian, 2 years younger
- Al-Ghazali — Islamic theologian and philosopher, 23 years older
Asia
- Li Qingzhao — Song dynasty poet, 3 years younger
- Jayavarman VII — King of the Khmer Empire, 41 years younger
- Shen Kuo — polymath, 50 years older
The world in their lifetime
- c. 1088 University of Bologna — aged 7, Europe
- 1099 Crusaders capture Jerusalem — aged 18, Middle East
- c. 1113–1150 Construction of Angkor Wat — aged 32, Asia
- 1113 Vladimir Monomakh in Kiev — aged 32, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1113 The Primary Chronicle — aged 32, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1136 The Novgorod Republic — aged 55, Eastern Europe & Russia