Yury of Moscow

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first Moscow prince to become grand prince of Vladimir

c. 1281 – 1325 · 44 years · Moscow · Eastern Europe & Russia

Reign: 1303 – 1325 (Rus and Russia)

Son of Daniel of Moscow and rival of Tver. Having married the sister of Uzbek Khan, he received the patent for the grand principality in 1318; in 1325 he was killed at the Horde by Dmitry of Tver.

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Contemporaries around the world

Europe

Dante Alighieri — poet, author of the Divine Comedy, 16 years older
Philip IV the Fair — king who destroyed the Knights Templar, 13 years older
Edward I Longshanks — conqueror of Wales, called the Hammer of the Scots, 42 years older
Edward III — king who began the Hundred Years' War and won at Crécy, 31 years younger
Rudolf I — first Habsburg king, who won Austria for his house, 63 years older
Giotto — painter and architect, 14 years older

Eastern Europe & Russia

Ivan Kalita — prince who began the gathering of Russian lands around Moscow, 7 years younger
Sergius of Radonezh — saint and abbot, 33 years younger
Daniel of Moscow — first prince of Moscow, founder of the Moscow line of the Rurikids, 20 years older

Middle East

Orhan — bey who took Bursa and led the Ottomans into Europe, born the same year
Osman I — founder of the Ottoman Empire, 23 years older

Africa

Mansa Musa — ruler of the Mali Empire, 1 year older
Ibn Battuta — traveller, 23 years younger

Asia

Marco Polo — Venetian traveller, 27 years older
Kublai Khan — Great Khan, founder of the Yuan dynasty, 66 years older
Emperor Go-Daigo — emperor who overthrew the Kamakura shogunate, 7 years younger
Ashikaga Takauji — founder of the Muromachi shogunate who turned on Go-Daigo, 24 years younger
Gajah Mada — prime minister of Majapahit, 9 years younger

The world in their lifetime

1281 Kamikaze, the divine wind — aged 0, Asia
1293 Founding of Majapahit — aged 12, Asia
c. 1300 Onset of the Little Ice Age — aged 19, Europe
1309–1377 Avignon Papacy — aged 28, Europe
1315–1317 Great Famine — aged 34, Europe
1324 Hajj of Mansa Musa — aged 43, Africa
c. 1325 Founding of Tenochtitlan — aged 44, Americas