Vsevolod the Big Nest

grand prince under whom Vladimir became the strongest power in Rus

1154 – 1212 · 58 years · Vladimir · Eastern Europe & Russia

Reign: 1176 – 1212 (Rus and Russia)

Brother of Andrey Bogolyubsky, nicknamed for his many children. Under him the Vladimir-Suzdal principality became the strongest in Rus, and the Cathedral of Saint Demetrius was built in Vladimir.

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Portrait: Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Contemporaries around the world

Europe

Philip II Augustus — king who took Normandy from the Plantagenets, 11 years younger
John Lackland — King of England who sealed Magna Carta, 12 years younger
Averroes (Ibn Rushd) — philosopher, commentator on Aristotle, 28 years older
Henry II — first Plantagenet, builder of the Angevin Empire and of common law, 21 years older
Francis of Assisi — saint, founder of the Franciscans, 28 years younger
Hildegard of Bingen — abbess, mystic and composer, 56 years older

Eastern Europe & Russia

Andrey Bogolyubsky — prince who moved the centre of Rus to Vladimir, 43 years older
Yuri II of Vladimir — grand prince of Vladimir killed fighting the Mongols on the Sit, 35 years younger
Yaroslav II of Vladimir — first Russian prince to receive a patent to rule from the Horde, 37 years younger

Middle East

Richard the Lionheart — King of England, crusader, 3 years younger
Tamar of Georgia — Queen of Georgia, 12 years younger

Africa

Saladin — Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 17 years older
Maimonides — philosopher, rabbi and physician, 16 years older

Asia

Genghis Khan — founder of the Mongol Empire, 8 years younger
Minamoto no Yoritomo — first shogun of Japan, 7 years older
Jayavarman VII — King of the Khmer Empire, 32 years older

The world in their lifetime

1163–1345 Notre-Dame de Paris begun — aged 9, Europe
1185 Prince Igor's campaign — aged 31, Eastern Europe & Russia
1192–1333 First shogunate in Japan — aged 38, Asia
1202 Fibonacci's Liber Abaci — aged 48, Europe
1204 Sack of Constantinople — aged 50, Europe
1206 Temüjin proclaimed Genghis Khan — aged 52, Asia
1206 Founding of the Delhi Sultanate — aged 52, Asia