Simeon the Proud
1316 – 1353 · 37 years · Moscow · Eastern Europe & Russia
Reign: 1340 – 1353 (Rus and Russia)
Eldest son of Ivan Kalita. He tightened Moscow's hold over the other princes, earning the nickname "the Proud", and styled himself grand prince "of all Rus". He died with his sons in the Black Death.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Edward III — king who began the Hundred Years' War and won at Crécy, 4 years older
- Charles IV — emperor who made Prague an imperial capital and issued the Golden Bull, born the same year
- Petrarch — humanist poet, 12 years older
- Philip VI — first Valois king, defeated at Crécy, 23 years older
- John II the Good — king captured by the English at Poitiers, 3 years younger
- Louis the Bavarian — emperor excommunicated by the pope and crowned in Rome without him, 34 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Sergius of Radonezh — saint and abbot, 2 years older
- Ivan Kalita — prince who began the gathering of Russian lands around Moscow, 28 years older
- Ivan II the Fair — grand prince of Moscow, father of Dmitry Donskoy, 10 years younger
Middle East
Africa
- Ibn Battuta — traveller, 12 years older
- Mansa Musa — ruler of the Mali Empire, 36 years older
- Ibn Khaldun — historian and thinker, 16 years younger
Asia
- Timur — emir and conqueror, 20 years younger
- Ashikaga Takauji — founder of the Muromachi shogunate who turned on Go-Daigo, 11 years older
- Emperor Go-Daigo — emperor who overthrew the Kamakura shogunate, 28 years older
- Gajah Mada — prime minister of Majapahit, 26 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshiakira — second Ashikaga shogun, who held Kyoto against the Southern Court, 14 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1324 Hajj of Mansa Musa — aged 8, Africa
- c. 1325 Founding of Tenochtitlan — aged 9, Americas
- c. 1327 The Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu — aged 11, Africa
- 1337–1453 Hundred Years' War — aged 21, Europe
- c. 1337 Sergius of Radonezh founds his monastery — aged 21, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1347–1351 Black Death — aged 31, Europe