Yuri Dolgoruky
c. 1099 – 1157 · 58 years · Suzdal · Eastern Europe & Russia
Reign: 1132 – 1157 (Rus and Russia)
A son of Monomakh who ruled the Rostov-Suzdal land and founded Yuryev-Polsky, Dmitrov and other towns. Moscow's first mention in the chronicles, in 1147, is tied to his invitation; he twice took Kiev, where he died.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Hildegard of Bingen — abbess, mystic and composer, 1 year older
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) — philosopher, commentator on Aristotle, 27 years younger
- Henry II — first Plantagenet, builder of the Angevin Empire and of common law, 34 years younger
- Stephen of Blois — king of the Anarchy, the civil war with Empress Matilda, 5 years older
- Conrad III — first Staufer king, unlucky leader in the Second Crusade, 6 years older
- Lothair III — Saxon duke elected by the princes in preference to the Staufer, 24 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Andrey Bogolyubsky — prince who moved the centre of Rus to Vladimir, 12 years younger
- Vladimir II Monomakh — Grand Prince of Kiev, 46 years older
- Mstislav the Great — last ruler of a united Kievan Rus, 23 years older
- Nestor the Chronicler — monk and chronicler, 43 years older
- Sviatopolk II — prince of Kiev, participant in the Congress of Liubech, 49 years older
Middle East
- Omar Khayyam — poet, mathematician, astronomer, 51 years older
- Anna Komnene — Byzantine princess and historian, 16 years older
- Al-Ghazali — Islamic theologian and philosopher, 41 years older
Africa
- Saladin — Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 38 years younger
- Maimonides — philosopher, rabbi and physician, 39 years younger
Asia
- Minamoto no Yoritomo — first shogun of Japan, 48 years younger
- Li Qingzhao — Song dynasty poet, 15 years older
- Jayavarman VII — King of the Khmer Empire, 23 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1099 Crusaders capture Jerusalem — aged 0, Middle East
- c. 1113–1150 Construction of Angkor Wat — aged 14, Asia
- 1113 Vladimir Monomakh in Kiev — aged 14, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1113 The Primary Chronicle — aged 14, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1136 The Novgorod Republic — aged 37, Eastern Europe & Russia