Who Was Alive

Bernard of Clairvaux

Burgundian saint, abbot and theologian

Born c. 1091 · died 20 August 1153

Who was alive at the same time as Bernard of Clairvaux?

  1. Anselm of Canterbury
  2. Urban II
  3. Omar Khayyám
  4. Al-Ghazali
  5. Peter Abelard
  6. Bernard of Clairvaux
  7. Hildegard of Bingen
  8. Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti
  9. Frederick Barbarossa
  10. Averroes
  11. Zhu Xi
  12. Moshe ben Maimon
  13. Saladin
  14. Nizami Ganjavi
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 Bernard of Clairvaux died, Saladin was 14 or 15, Averroes was 27, Zhu Xi was 22 and Frederick Barbarossa was 30.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Genghis Khan was born 9 years after Bernard of Clairvaux died, William the Conqueror died 2 years before Bernard of Clairvaux was born, Richard I of England was born 4 years after Bernard of Clairvaux died and Innocent III was born 7 years after Bernard of Clairvaux died.

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