Sviatopolk II
1050 – 1113 · 63 years · Kiev · Eastern Europe & Russia
Reign: 1093 – 1113 (Rus and Russia)
Son of Iziaslav I. He took part in the Congress of Liubech in 1097 and, with Monomakh, in victorious campaigns against the Cumans; his death was followed by an uprising in Kiev.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Henry IV — emperor humbled at Canossa in his struggle with the pope, born the same year
- William the Conqueror — Duke of Normandy, King of England, 22 years older
- Edward the Confessor — pious king who built Westminster Abbey, 47 years older
- Hildegard of Bingen — abbess, mystic and composer, 48 years younger
- Philip I — son of Anne of Kiev, excommunicated for bigamy, 2 years younger
- Henry I Beauclerc — law-giving king who created the Exchequer and the Charter of Liberties, 18 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Vladimir II Monomakh — Grand Prince of Kiev, 3 years younger
- Yuri Dolgoruky — prince of Rostov-Suzdal, founder of Moscow, 49 years younger
- Nestor the Chronicler — monk and chronicler, 6 years younger
- Vsevolod I — prince of Kiev, father of Vladimir Monomakh, 20 years older
- Mstislav the Great — last ruler of a united Kievan Rus, 26 years younger
- Iziaslav I — prince of Kiev twice driven from his capital, 26 years older
Middle East
- Omar Khayyam — poet, mathematician, astronomer, 2 years older
- Al-Ghazali — Islamic theologian and philosopher, 8 years younger
- Anna Komnene — Byzantine princess and historian, 33 years younger
Asia
- Shen Kuo — polymath, 19 years older
- Li Qingzhao — Song dynasty poet, 34 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1054 East–West Schism — aged 4, Middle East
- 1054 Supernova SN 1054 — aged 4, Asia
- 1066 Battle of Hastings — aged 16, Europe
- 1066 Halley's Comet over England — aged 16, Europe
- c. 1070 The Almoravids found Marrakesh — aged 20, Africa
- 1077 Walk to Canossa — aged 27, Europe
- c. 1088 University of Bologna — aged 38, Europe
- 1099 Crusaders capture Jerusalem — aged 49, Middle East
- c. 1113–1150 Construction of Angkor Wat — aged 63, Asia
- 1113 Vladimir Monomakh in Kiev — aged 63, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1113 The Primary Chronicle — aged 63, Eastern Europe & Russia