Richard the Lionheart
1157 – 1199 · 42 years · Acre · Middle East
Reign: 1189 – 1199 (England and Britain)
Warrior king who led the Third Crusade against Saladin and spent only months of his reign in England.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 12th century
Portrait: Matthew Paris · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) — philosopher, commentator on Aristotle, 31 years older
- Philip II Augustus — king who took Normandy from the Plantagenets, 8 years younger
- John Lackland — King of England who sealed Magna Carta, 9 years younger
- Henry II — first Plantagenet, builder of the Angevin Empire and of common law, 24 years older
- Hildegard of Bingen — abbess, mystic and composer, 59 years older
- Francis of Assisi — saint, founder of the Franciscans, 25 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Vsevolod the Big Nest — grand prince under whom Vladimir became the strongest power in Rus, 3 years older
- Andrey Bogolyubsky — prince who moved the centre of Rus to Vladimir, 46 years older
- Yuri II of Vladimir — grand prince of Vladimir killed fighting the Mongols on the Sit, 32 years younger
Middle East
- Tamar of Georgia — Queen of Georgia, 9 years younger
Africa
- Saladin — Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 20 years older
- Maimonides — philosopher, rabbi and physician, 19 years older
Asia
- Genghis Khan — founder of the Mongol Empire, 5 years younger
- Minamoto no Yoritomo — first shogun of Japan, 10 years older
- Jayavarman VII — King of the Khmer Empire, 35 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1163–1345 Notre-Dame de Paris begun — aged 6, Europe
- 1185 Prince Igor's campaign — aged 28, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1192–1333 First shogunate in Japan — aged 35, Asia