Philip VI
1293 – 1350 · 57 years · Paris · Europe
Reign: 1328 – 1350 (Franks and France)
Nephew of Philip IV, made king over the claim of Edward III. The Hundred Years’ War began on his watch: his fleet was destroyed at Sluys (1340), his army at Crécy (1346), Calais fell and the Black Death ravaged the land.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Dante Alighieri — poet, author of the Divine Comedy, 28 years older
- Edward III — king who began the Hundred Years' War and won at Crécy, 19 years younger
- Charles IV — emperor who made Prague an imperial capital and issued the Golden Bull, 23 years younger
- Philip IV the Fair — king who destroyed the Knights Templar, 25 years older
- Edward I Longshanks — conqueror of Wales, called the Hammer of the Scots, 54 years older
- Louis the Bavarian — emperor excommunicated by the pope and crowned in Rome without him, 11 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan Kalita — prince who began the gathering of Russian lands around Moscow, 5 years older
- Sergius of Radonezh — saint and abbot, 21 years younger
- Simeon the Proud — grand prince "of all Rus" who died of the plague, 23 years younger
- Yury of Moscow — first Moscow prince to become grand prince of Vladimir, 12 years older
- Ivan II the Fair — grand prince of Moscow, father of Dmitry Donskoy, 33 years younger
- Daniel of Moscow — first prince of Moscow, founder of the Moscow line of the Rurikids, 32 years older
Middle East
Africa
- Ibn Battuta — traveller, 11 years younger
- Mansa Musa — ruler of the Mali Empire, 13 years older
- Ibn Khaldun — historian and thinker, 39 years younger
Asia
- Marco Polo — Venetian traveller, 39 years older
- Timur — emir and conqueror, 43 years younger
- Emperor Go-Daigo — emperor who overthrew the Kamakura shogunate, 5 years older
- Ashikaga Takauji — founder of the Muromachi shogunate who turned on Go-Daigo, 12 years younger
- Gajah Mada — prime minister of Majapahit, 3 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshiakira — second Ashikaga shogun, who held Kyoto against the Southern Court, 37 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1293 Founding of Majapahit — aged 0, Asia
- c. 1300 Onset of the Little Ice Age — aged 7, Europe
- 1309–1377 Avignon Papacy — aged 16, Europe
- 1315–1317 Great Famine — aged 22, Europe
- 1324 Hajj of Mansa Musa — aged 31, Africa
- c. 1325 Founding of Tenochtitlan — aged 32, Americas
- c. 1327 The Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu — aged 34, Africa
- 1337–1453 Hundred Years' War — aged 44, Europe
- c. 1337 Sergius of Radonezh founds his monastery — aged 44, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1347–1351 Black Death — aged 54, Europe