Minamoto no Yoritomo
1147 – 1199 · 52 years · Kamakura · Asia
Reign: 1192 – 1199 (Japan: shoguns & emperors)
Victor of the Genpei War who founded the Kamakura shogunate, Japan's first samurai government.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 12th century
Portrait: Fujiwara no Takanobu · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) — philosopher, commentator on Aristotle, 21 years older
- Henry II — first Plantagenet, builder of the Angevin Empire and of common law, 14 years older
- Philip II Augustus — king who took Normandy from the Plantagenets, 18 years younger
- John Lackland — King of England who sealed Magna Carta, 19 years younger
- Hildegard of Bingen — abbess, mystic and composer, 49 years older
- Francis of Assisi — saint, founder of the Franciscans, 35 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Vsevolod the Big Nest — grand prince under whom Vladimir became the strongest power in Rus, 7 years younger
- Andrey Bogolyubsky — prince who moved the centre of Rus to Vladimir, 36 years older
- Yuri Dolgoruky — prince of Rostov-Suzdal, founder of Moscow, 48 years older
- Yuri II of Vladimir — grand prince of Vladimir killed fighting the Mongols on the Sit, 42 years younger
Middle East
- Richard the Lionheart — King of England, crusader, 10 years younger
- Tamar of Georgia — Queen of Georgia, 19 years younger
Africa
- Saladin — Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 10 years older
- Maimonides — philosopher, rabbi and physician, 9 years older
Asia
- Genghis Khan — founder of the Mongol Empire, 15 years younger
- Jayavarman VII — King of the Khmer Empire, 25 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1163–1345 Notre-Dame de Paris begun — aged 16, Europe
- 1185 Prince Igor's campaign — aged 38, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1192–1333 First shogunate in Japan — aged 45, Asia