Louis XII
1462 – 1515 · 53 years · Blois · Europe
Reign: 1498 – 1515 (Franks and France)
The only king from the Orléans branch of the Valois. He continued the Italian Wars and seized the Duchy of Milan, and tax cuts earned him the name "Father of the People".
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Portrait: Workshop of Jean Perréal · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Leonardo da Vinci — painter, scientist and inventor, 10 years older
- Nicolaus Copernicus — astronomer, 11 years younger
- Michelangelo — sculptor, painter and architect, 13 years younger
- Martin Luther — church reformer, 21 years younger
- Maximilian I — "the Last Knight", who raised the Habsburgs through shrewd marriages, 3 years older
- Henry VII — founder of the Tudor dynasty who ended the Wars of the Roses, 5 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan III — Grand Prince of Moscow, 22 years older
- Vasily III — grand prince who completed the unification of the Russian lands, 17 years younger
- Sophia Palaiologina — Grand Princess of Moscow, 7 years older
Middle East
- Mehmed II — Ottoman sultan, 30 years older
- Selim I the Grim — sultan who took Cairo and Mecca, 8 years younger
- Suleiman the Magnificent — Ottoman sultan, 32 years younger
- Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana) — wife of Sultan Suleiman I, 43 years younger
- Bayezid II — sultan who took in the Jews expelled from Spain, 15 years older
Africa
- Askia Muhammad I — Emperor of Songhai, 19 years older
Asia
- Guru Nanak — founder of Sikhism, 7 years younger
- Vasco da Gama — navigator, 7 years younger
- Babur — founder of the Mughal Empire, 21 years younger
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa — shogun of the Ōnin War and the Silver Pavilion, 26 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshitane — shogun who held office twice and was driven out twice, 4 years younger
- Ashikaga Yoshizumi — puppet shogun of the Hosokawa clan, 19 years younger
Americas
- Christopher Columbus — navigator, 11 years older
- Moctezuma II — Aztec emperor, 4 years younger
- Ferdinand Magellan — navigator, 18 years younger
- Bartolomé de las Casas — friar and defender of Native Americans, 22 years younger
- Hernán Cortés — conquistador, 23 years younger
- Atahualpa — last Inca emperor, 40 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — aged 16, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — aged 18, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1488 Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope — aged 26, Africa
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — aged 30, Americas
- 1492 Fall of Granada — aged 30, Europe
- 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas — aged 32, Europe
- 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India — aged 36, Asia
- 1501 Founding of Safavid Iran — aged 39, Middle East
- 1508–1512 Sistine Chapel ceiling — aged 46, Europe
- 1511 Portuguese capture of Malacca — aged 49, Asia