Louis XI
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1423 – 1483 · 60 years · Tours · Europe
Reign: 1461 – 1483 (Franks and France)
Through intrigue and money he overcame rebellious nobles and Charles the Bold of Burgundy. After Charles was killed he annexed the duchy of Burgundy and Picardy, and later Anjou and Provence.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Johannes Gutenberg — inventor of the printing press, 23 years older
- Leonardo da Vinci — painter, scientist and inventor, 29 years younger
- Nicolaus Copernicus — astronomer, 50 years younger
- Charles VII — king under whom the Hundred Years’ War ended, 20 years older
- Isabella I of Castile — Queen of Castile, 28 years younger
- Richard III — last Plantagenet king, killed at Bosworth, 29 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan III — Grand Prince of Moscow, 17 years younger
- Vasily II the Blind — grand prince blinded in a dynastic civil war, 8 years older
- Sophia Palaiologina — Grand Princess of Moscow, 32 years younger
Middle East
- Mehmed II — Ottoman sultan, 9 years younger
- Murad II — sultan who crushed the crusaders at Varna, 19 years older
- Selim I the Grim — sultan who took Cairo and Mecca, 47 years younger
- Bayezid II — sultan who took in the Jews expelled from Spain, 24 years younger
Africa
- Askia Muhammad I — Emperor of Songhai, 20 years younger
Asia
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa — shogun of the Ōnin War and the Silver Pavilion, 13 years younger
- Sejong the Great — King of Joseon Korea, 26 years older
- Guru Nanak — founder of Sikhism, 46 years younger
- Vasco da Gama — navigator, 46 years younger
- Zheng He — admiral and explorer, 52 years older
- Ulugh Beg — ruler and astronomer, 29 years older
Americas
- Christopher Columbus — navigator, 28 years younger
- Pachacuti — Sapa Inca, 5 years older
- Moctezuma II — Aztec emperor, 43 years younger
- Nezahualcoyotl — ruler of Texcoco, poet, 21 years older
- Huayna Capac — Sapa Inca, 41 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1429 Joan of Arc relieves Orléans — aged 6, Europe
- c. 1438 Pachacuti founds the Inca Empire — aged 15, Americas
- c. 1445 Extinction of the moa — aged 22, Oceania
- 1446 King Sejong promulgates Hangul — aged 23, Asia
- c. 1450 Gutenberg's printing press — aged 27, Europe
- c. 1450 Building of Machu Picchu — aged 27, Americas
- c. 1450 Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy — aged 27, Americas
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — aged 30, Middle East
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — aged 55, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — aged 57, Eastern Europe & Russia