Vsevolod I
1030 – 1093 · 63 years · Kiev · Eastern Europe & Russia
Reign: 1078 – 1093 (Rus and Russia)
The youngest of Yaroslav the Wise's sons to rule Rus, he married a Byzantine princess of the Monomachos family. According to Monomakh he knew five languages; he ruled Kiev from 1078 until his death.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- William the Conqueror — Duke of Normandy, King of England, 2 years older
- Henry IV — emperor humbled at Canossa in his struggle with the pope, 20 years younger
- Edward the Confessor — pious king who built Westminster Abbey, 27 years older
- Philip I — son of Anne of Kiev, excommunicated for bigamy, 22 years younger
- William II Rufus — the Conqueror's son, killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest, 26 years younger
- Henry I — king who married Anne of Kiev, daughter of Yaroslav the Wise, 22 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Vladimir II Monomakh — Grand Prince of Kiev, 23 years younger
- Yaroslav the Wise — Grand Prince of Kiev, 52 years older
- Iziaslav I — prince of Kiev twice driven from his capital, 6 years older
- Sviatopolk II — prince of Kiev, participant in the Congress of Liubech, 20 years younger
- Nestor the Chronicler — monk and chronicler, 26 years younger
- Mstislav the Great — last ruler of a united Kievan Rus, 46 years younger
Middle East
- Omar Khayyam — poet, mathematician, astronomer, 18 years younger
- Al-Ghazali — Islamic theologian and philosopher, 28 years younger
- Anna Komnene — Byzantine princess and historian, 53 years younger
Asia
The world in their lifetime
- c. 1037 Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev — aged 7, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1044 First gunpowder formulas in the Wujing Zongyao — aged 14, Asia
- 1054 East–West Schism — aged 24, Middle East
- 1054 Supernova SN 1054 — aged 24, Asia
- 1066 Battle of Hastings — aged 36, Europe
- 1066 Halley's Comet over England — aged 36, Europe
- c. 1070 The Almoravids found Marrakesh — aged 40, Africa
- 1077 Walk to Canossa — aged 47, Europe
- c. 1088 University of Bologna — aged 58, Europe