Who Was Alive

Francis of Assisi

Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order

Born c. 1182 · died 3 October 1226

Who was alive at the same time as Francis of Assisi?

  1. Frederick Barbarossa
  2. Averroes
  3. Zhu Xi
  4. Moshe ben Maimon
  5. Saladin
  6. Nizami Ganjavi
  7. Richard I of England
  8. Innocent III
  9. Genghis Khan
  10. John, King of England
  11. Shota Rustaveli
  12. Francis of Assisi
  13. Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
  14. Albertus Magnus
  15. Rumi
  16. Saadi
  17. Louis IX of France
  18. Kublai Khan
  19. Roger Bacon
  20. Thomas Aquinas
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Francis of Assisi died, Genghis Khan was 64, Thomas Aquinas was about a year old, Rumi was 19, Kublai Khan was 11 and Louis IX of France was 11 or 12.

Born during Francis of Assisi’s lifetime: Thomas Aquinas, Rumi, Saadi, Kublai Khan, Albertus Magnus, Louis IX of France, Roger Bacon and Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.

Not quite contemporaries: Hildegard of Bingen died about a year before Francis of Assisi was born and Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti died 11 years before Francis of Assisi was born.

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