Mstislav the Great
1076 – 1132 · 56 years · Kiev · Eastern Europe & Russia
Reign: 1125 – 1132 (Rus and Russia)
Eldest son of Vladimir Monomakh. He kept almost all of Rus under Kiev's rule and fought the Cumans and Polotsk; soon after his death in 1132 Rus broke up into independent principalities.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Hildegard of Bingen — abbess, mystic and composer, 22 years younger
- Henry IV — emperor humbled at Canossa in his struggle with the pope, 26 years older
- William the Conqueror — Duke of Normandy, King of England, 48 years older
- Henry I Beauclerc — law-giving king who created the Exchequer and the Charter of Liberties, 8 years older
- Lothair III — Saxon duke elected by the princes in preference to the Staufer, 1 year older
- Louis VI the Fat — king who tamed the barons around Paris, 5 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Vladimir II Monomakh — Grand Prince of Kiev, 23 years older
- Yuri Dolgoruky — prince of Rostov-Suzdal, founder of Moscow, 23 years younger
- Andrey Bogolyubsky — prince who moved the centre of Rus to Vladimir, 35 years younger
- Nestor the Chronicler — monk and chronicler, 20 years older
- Sviatopolk II — prince of Kiev, participant in the Congress of Liubech, 26 years older
- Vsevolod I — prince of Kiev, father of Vladimir Monomakh, 46 years older
Middle East
- Omar Khayyam — poet, mathematician, astronomer, 28 years older
- Anna Komnene — Byzantine princess and historian, 7 years younger
- Al-Ghazali — Islamic theologian and philosopher, 18 years older
Asia
- Li Qingzhao — Song dynasty poet, 8 years younger
- Shen Kuo — polymath, 45 years older
- Jayavarman VII — King of the Khmer Empire, 46 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1077 Walk to Canossa — aged 1, Europe
- c. 1088 University of Bologna — aged 12, Europe
- 1099 Crusaders capture Jerusalem — aged 23, Middle East
- c. 1113–1150 Construction of Angkor Wat — aged 37, Asia
- 1113 Vladimir Monomakh in Kiev — aged 37, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1113 The Primary Chronicle — aged 37, Eastern Europe & Russia