Sergius of Radonezh

saint and abbot

c. 1314 – 1392 · 78 years · Trinity Lavra of St Sergius · Eastern Europe & Russia

Founder of the Trinity Monastery and Russia's most revered saint, said to have blessed Dmitry Donskoy before Kulikovo.

Portrait: Unknown author · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Contemporaries around the world

Edward III — king who began the Hundred Years' War and won at Crécy, 2 years older
Charles IV — emperor who made Prague an imperial capital and issued the Golden Bull, 2 years younger
Richard II — boy king who faced down the Peasants' Revolt and was deposed by his cousin, 53 years younger
Sigismund — emperor of the Council of Constance that ended the Schism and burned Hus, 54 years younger
Petrarch — humanist poet, 10 years older
Geoffrey Chaucer — poet, author of The Canterbury Tales, 29 years younger

Dmitry Donskoy — Grand Prince of Moscow, 36 years younger
Andrei Rublev — icon painter, 46 years younger
Ivan Kalita — prince who began the gathering of Russian lands around Moscow, 26 years older
Simeon the Proud — grand prince "of all Rus" who died of the plague, 2 years younger
Ivan II the Fair — grand prince of Moscow, father of Dmitry Donskoy, 12 years younger
Vasily I — grand prince who annexed Nizhny Novgorod, 57 years younger

Murad I — sultan who took Adrianople and fell at Kosovo, 12 years younger
Orhan — bey who took Bursa and led the Ottomans into Europe, 33 years older
Bayezid I the Thunderbolt — sultan defeated and captured by Timur at Ankara, 46 years younger
Osman I — founder of the Ottoman Empire, 56 years older
Hafez — Persian poet, 11 years younger

Timur — emir and conqueror, 22 years younger
Marco Polo — Venetian traveller, 60 years older
Ashikaga Takauji — founder of the Muromachi shogunate who turned on Go-Daigo, 9 years older
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu — shogun who reunited the two imperial courts and built Kinkaku-ji, 44 years younger
Emperor Go-Daigo — emperor who overthrew the Kamakura shogunate, 26 years older
Zheng He — admiral and explorer, 57 years younger

1315–1317 Great Famine — aged 1, Europe
1324 Hajj of Mansa Musa — aged 10, Africa
c. 1325 Founding of Tenochtitlan — aged 11, Americas
c. 1327 The Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu — aged 13, Africa
1337–1453 Hundred Years' War — aged 23, Europe
c. 1337 Sergius of Radonezh founds his monastery — aged 23, Eastern Europe & Russia
1347–1351 Black Death — aged 33, Europe
1368 Founding of the Ming dynasty — aged 54, Asia
1370 Timur makes Samarkand his capital — aged 56, Asia
1377 Jikji, printed with movable metal type — aged 63, Asia
1380 Battle of Kulikovo — aged 66, Eastern Europe & Russia
1385 Union of Krewo — aged 71, Europe
1392 Founding of Joseon — aged 78, Asia