Who Was Alive

Peter Abelard

French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician

Born 1079 · died 21 April 1142, aged 62 or 63

Who was alive at the same time as Peter Abelard?

  1. William the Conqueror
  2. Anselm of Canterbury
  3. Urban II
  4. Omar Khayyám
  5. Al-Ghazali
  6. Peter Abelard
  7. Bernard of Clairvaux
  8. Hildegard of Bingen
  9. Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti
  10. Frederick Barbarossa
  11. Averroes
  12. Zhu Xi
  13. Moshe ben Maimon
  14. Saladin
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 Peter Abelard died, Saladin was 3 or 4, Averroes was 16, Zhu Xi was 11 and Frederick Barbarossa was 19.

Born during Peter Abelard’s lifetime: Saladin, Averroes, Zhu Xi, Hildegard of Bingen, Moshe ben Maimon, Frederick Barbarossa, Bernard of Clairvaux and Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti.

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