Vladimir II Monomakh
1053 – 1125 · 72 years · Kyiv · Eastern Europe & Russia
Reign: 1113 – 1125 (Rus and Russia)
Grandson of a Byzantine emperor and the last prince to hold Rus' together; author of the 'Instruction' to his children.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 11th century
Portrait: Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Henry IV — emperor humbled at Canossa in his struggle with the pope, 3 years older
- William the Conqueror — Duke of Normandy, King of England, 25 years older
- Hildegard of Bingen — abbess, mystic and composer, 45 years younger
- Edward the Confessor — pious king who built Westminster Abbey, 50 years older
- Henry I Beauclerc — law-giving king who created the Exchequer and the Charter of Liberties, 15 years younger
- Philip I — son of Anne of Kiev, excommunicated for bigamy, 1 year older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Yuri Dolgoruky — prince of Rostov-Suzdal, founder of Moscow, 46 years younger
- Andrey Bogolyubsky — prince who moved the centre of Rus to Vladimir, 58 years younger
- Sviatopolk II — prince of Kiev, participant in the Congress of Liubech, 3 years older
- Nestor the Chronicler — monk and chronicler, 3 years younger
- Mstislav the Great — last ruler of a united Kievan Rus, 23 years younger
- Vsevolod I — prince of Kiev, father of Vladimir Monomakh, 23 years older
Middle East
- Omar Khayyam — poet, mathematician, astronomer, 5 years older
- Al-Ghazali — Islamic theologian and philosopher, 5 years younger
- Anna Komnene — Byzantine princess and historian, 30 years younger
Asia
- Shen Kuo — polymath, 22 years older
- Li Qingzhao — Song dynasty poet, 31 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1054 East–West Schism — aged 1, Middle East
- 1054 Supernova SN 1054 — aged 1, Asia
- 1066 Battle of Hastings — aged 13, Europe
- 1066 Halley's Comet over England — aged 13, Europe
- c. 1070 The Almoravids found Marrakesh — aged 17, Africa
- 1077 Walk to Canossa — aged 24, Europe
- c. 1088 University of Bologna — aged 35, Europe
- 1099 Crusaders capture Jerusalem — aged 46, Middle East
- c. 1113–1150 Construction of Angkor Wat — aged 60, Asia
- 1113 Vladimir Monomakh in Kiev — aged 60, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1113 The Primary Chronicle — aged 60, Eastern Europe & Russia