Who Was Alive

Frederick Barbarossa

Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 to 1190

Born December 1122 · died 10–17 June 1190, aged 67

Who was alive at the same time as Frederick Barbarossa?

  1. Omar Khayyám
  2. Peter Abelard
  3. Bernard of Clairvaux
  4. Hildegard of Bingen
  5. Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti
  6. Frederick Barbarossa
  7. Averroes
  8. Zhu Xi
  9. Moshe ben Maimon
  10. Saladin
  11. Nizami Ganjavi
  12. Richard I of England
  13. Innocent III
  14. Genghis Khan
  15. John, King of England
  16. Shota Rustaveli
  17. Francis of Assisi
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 Frederick Barbarossa died, Genghis Khan was 28, Saladin was 51 or 52, Averroes was 64, Zhu Xi was 59 and Richard I of England was 32.

Born during Frederick Barbarossa’s lifetime: Genghis Khan, Saladin, Francis of Assisi, Averroes, Zhu Xi, Richard I of England, Moshe ben Maimon and Shota Rustaveli.

Not quite contemporaries: Al-Ghazali died 11 years before Frederick Barbarossa was born, Albertus Magnus was born 8 years after Frederick Barbarossa died, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor was born 5 years after Frederick Barbarossa died and Anselm of Canterbury died 13 years before Frederick Barbarossa was born.

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