Philip I
1052 – 1108 · 56 years · Paris · Europe
Reign: 1060 – 1108 (Franks and France)
Became king at seven and reigned for 48 years. He married Bertrade de Montfort, taken from her living husband, was excommunicated and so stayed out of the First Crusade.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Henry IV — emperor humbled at Canossa in his struggle with the pope, 2 years older
- William the Conqueror — Duke of Normandy, King of England, 24 years older
- Edward the Confessor — pious king who built Westminster Abbey, 49 years older
- Hildegard of Bingen — abbess, mystic and composer, 46 years younger
- William II Rufus — the Conqueror's son, killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest, 4 years younger
- Henry I Beauclerc — law-giving king who created the Exchequer and the Charter of Liberties, 16 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Vladimir II Monomakh — Grand Prince of Kiev, 1 year younger
- Sviatopolk II — prince of Kiev, participant in the Congress of Liubech, 2 years older
- Nestor the Chronicler — monk and chronicler, 4 years younger
- Vsevolod I — prince of Kiev, father of Vladimir Monomakh, 22 years older
- Mstislav the Great — last ruler of a united Kievan Rus, 24 years younger
- Iziaslav I — prince of Kiev twice driven from his capital, 28 years older
Middle East
- Omar Khayyam — poet, mathematician, astronomer, 4 years older
- Al-Ghazali — Islamic theologian and philosopher, 6 years younger
- Anna Komnene — Byzantine princess and historian, 31 years younger
Asia
- Shen Kuo — polymath, 21 years older
- Li Qingzhao — Song dynasty poet, 32 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1054 East–West Schism — aged 2, Middle East
- 1054 Supernova SN 1054 — aged 2, Asia
- 1066 Battle of Hastings — aged 14, Europe
- 1066 Halley's Comet over England — aged 14, Europe
- c. 1070 The Almoravids found Marrakesh — aged 18, Africa
- 1077 Walk to Canossa — aged 25, Europe
- c. 1088 University of Bologna — aged 36, Europe
- 1099 Crusaders capture Jerusalem — aged 47, Middle East