Louis VII the Young
1120 – 1180 · 60 years · Paris · Europe
Reign: 1137 – 1180 (Franks and France)
With Conrad III he led the failed Second Crusade (1147–1149). Divorcing Eleanor in 1152 cost him Aquitaine: she married Henry Plantagenet, the future king of England.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Hildegard of Bingen — abbess, mystic and composer, 22 years older
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) — philosopher, commentator on Aristotle, 6 years younger
- Henry II — first Plantagenet, builder of the Angevin Empire and of common law, 13 years younger
- Philip II Augustus — king who took Normandy from the Plantagenets, 45 years younger
- John Lackland — King of England who sealed Magna Carta, 46 years younger
- Frederick Barbarossa — Holy Roman Emperor, 2 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Andrey Bogolyubsky — prince who moved the centre of Rus to Vladimir, 9 years older
- Yuri Dolgoruky — prince of Rostov-Suzdal, founder of Moscow, 21 years older
- Vsevolod the Big Nest — grand prince under whom Vladimir became the strongest power in Rus, 34 years younger
- Mstislav the Great — last ruler of a united Kievan Rus, 44 years older
Middle East
- Richard the Lionheart — King of England, crusader, 37 years younger
- Omar Khayyam — poet, mathematician, astronomer, 72 years older
- Anna Komnene — Byzantine princess and historian, 37 years older
- Tamar of Georgia — Queen of Georgia, 46 years younger
Africa
- Saladin — Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 17 years younger
- Maimonides — philosopher, rabbi and physician, 18 years younger
Asia
- Genghis Khan — founder of the Mongol Empire, 42 years younger
- Minamoto no Yoritomo — first shogun of Japan, 27 years younger
- Jayavarman VII — King of the Khmer Empire, 2 years younger
- Li Qingzhao — Song dynasty poet, 36 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1136 The Novgorod Republic — aged 16, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1163–1345 Notre-Dame de Paris begun — aged 43, Europe