Louis X the Quarreller
1289 – 1316 · 27 years · Paris · Europe
Reign: 1314 – 1316 (Franks and France)
He reigned only a year and a half and reputedly died after drinking cold wine following a ball game. His posthumous son John I lived five days; his brother Philip took the crown and his daughter Joan was passed over.
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Portrait: Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Dante Alighieri — poet, author of the Divine Comedy, 24 years older
- Philip IV the Fair — king who destroyed the Knights Templar, 21 years older
- Edward I Longshanks — conqueror of Wales, called the Hammer of the Scots, 50 years older
- Giotto — painter and architect, 22 years older
- Louis the Bavarian — emperor excommunicated by the pope and crowned in Rome without him, 7 years older
- Edward II — king defeated at Bannockburn and deposed by his wife, 5 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan Kalita — prince who began the gathering of Russian lands around Moscow, 1 year older
- Yury of Moscow — first Moscow prince to become grand prince of Vladimir, 8 years older
- Daniel of Moscow — first prince of Moscow, founder of the Moscow line of the Rurikids, 28 years older
Middle East
Africa
- Mansa Musa — ruler of the Mali Empire, 9 years older
- Ibn Battuta — traveller, 15 years younger
Asia
- Marco Polo — Venetian traveller, 35 years older
- Emperor Go-Daigo — emperor who overthrew the Kamakura shogunate, 1 year older
- Ashikaga Takauji — founder of the Muromachi shogunate who turned on Go-Daigo, 16 years younger
- Gajah Mada — prime minister of Majapahit, 1 year younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1293 Founding of Majapahit — aged 4, Asia
- c. 1300 Onset of the Little Ice Age — aged 11, Europe
- 1309–1377 Avignon Papacy — aged 20, Europe
- 1315–1317 Great Famine — aged 26, Europe