Who Was Alive

Genghis Khan

Founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire

Born 31 May 1162 · died 25 August 1227, aged 65

Who was alive at the same time as Genghis Khan?

  1. Hildegard of Bingen
  2. Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti
  3. Frederick Barbarossa
  4. Averroes
  5. Zhu Xi
  6. Moshe ben Maimon
  7. Saladin
  8. Nizami Ganjavi
  9. Richard I of England
  10. Innocent III
  11. Genghis Khan
  12. John, King of England
  13. Shota Rustaveli
  14. Francis of Assisi
  15. Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
  16. Albertus Magnus
  17. Rumi
  18. Saadi
  19. Louis IX of France
  20. Kublai Khan
  21. Roger Bacon
  22. 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 Genghis Khan was born, Saladin was 23 or 24, Averroes was 36, Zhu Xi was 31, Richard I of England was 4 and Frederick Barbarossa was 39.

When Genghis Khan died, Thomas Aquinas was 1 or 2, Rumi was 19, Kublai Khan was 11, Louis IX of France was 12 or 13 and Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor was 32.

Born during Genghis Khan’s lifetime: Thomas Aquinas, Rumi, Francis of Assisi, Saadi, Kublai Khan, Shota Rustaveli, Albertus Magnus and Louis IX of France.

Not quite contemporaries: Bernard of Clairvaux died 9 years before Genghis Khan was born.

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