Sigismund
1368 – 1437 · 69 years · Buda · Europe
Reign: 1410 – 1437 (Holy Roman Empire & Austria)
King of Hungary from 1387, defeated by the Turks at Nicopolis (1396). He convened the Council of Constance, which ended the Great Schism, but let Jan Hus be burned despite his safe-conduct — and then spent fifteen years fighting the Hussites.
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Portrait: Formerly attributed to Pisanello · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Johannes Gutenberg — inventor of the printing press, 32 years younger
- Joan of Arc — heroine of the Hundred Years' War, 44 years younger
- Henry V — victor of Agincourt who became heir to the French crown, 18 years younger
- Charles VII — king under whom the Hundred Years’ War ended, 35 years younger
- Richard II — boy king who faced down the Peasants' Revolt and was deposed by his cousin, 1 year older
- Louis XI — the "universal spider" who pieced France together, 55 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Andrei Rublev — icon painter, 8 years older
- Sergius of Radonezh — saint and abbot, 54 years older
- Dmitry Donskoy — Grand Prince of Moscow, 18 years older
- Vasily I — grand prince who annexed Nizhny Novgorod, 3 years younger
- Vasily II the Blind — grand prince blinded in a dynastic civil war, 47 years younger
Middle East
- Bayezid I the Thunderbolt — sultan defeated and captured by Timur at Ankara, 8 years older
- Murad II — sultan who crushed the crusaders at Varna, 36 years younger
- Murad I — sultan who took Adrianople and fell at Kosovo, 42 years older
- Mehmed I Çelebi — sultan who reunited the realm after Timur, 21 years younger
- Hafez — Persian poet, 43 years older
Africa
- Ibn Khaldun — historian and thinker, 36 years older
Asia
- Timur — emir and conqueror, 32 years older
- Zheng He — admiral and explorer, 3 years younger
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu — shogun who reunited the two imperial courts and built Kinkaku-ji, 10 years older
- Sejong the Great — King of Joseon Korea, 29 years younger
- Ulugh Beg — ruler and astronomer, 26 years younger
- Ashikaga Yoshinori — shogun chosen by lot and murdered by his own vassal, 26 years younger
Americas
- Pachacuti — Sapa Inca, 50 years younger
- Nezahualcoyotl — ruler of Texcoco, poet, 34 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1368 Founding of the Ming dynasty — aged 0, Asia
- 1370 Timur makes Samarkand his capital — aged 2, Asia
- 1377 Jikji, printed with movable metal type — aged 9, Asia
- 1380 Battle of Kulikovo — aged 12, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1385 Union of Krewo — aged 17, Europe
- 1392 Founding of Joseon — aged 24, Asia
- c. 1400 Founding of Malacca — aged 32, Asia
- 1405–1433 Voyages of Zheng He — aged 37, Asia
- 1410 Battle of Grunwald — aged 42, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1411 Andrei Rublev's Trinity — aged 43, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1429 Joan of Arc relieves Orléans — aged 61, Europe