Who Was Alive
Cimabue
Giorgio Vasari, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Cimabue

Italian painter

Born c. 1240 · died 1302
Also known as Cenni Di Pepo, giovanni cimabue, Cenni di Pepe

Who was alive at the same time as Cimabue?

  1. Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1194 – 1250
  2. Albertus Magnus, c. 1200 – 1280
  3. Batu Khan, c. 1205 – c. 1255
  4. Rumi, 1207 – 1273
  5. Saadi Shirazi, c. 1210 – 1292
  6. Nasreddin, 1208 – 1284
  7. Louis IX of France, c. 1215 – 1270
  8. Pope Celestine V, 1215 – 1296
  9. Kublai Khan, 1215 – 1294
  10. Roger Bacon, c. 1220 – 1292
  11. Alexander Nevsky, 1220 – 1263
  12. Thomas Aquinas, 1225 – 1274
  13. Pope Boniface VIII, 1235 – 1303
  14. Cimabue, c. 1240 – 1302
  15. Edward I, 1239 – 1307
  16. Marco Polo, 1254 – 1324
  17. Osman I, 1258 – 1326
  18. Dante Alighieri, c. 1265 – 1321
  19. Giotto, c. 1272 – 1337
  20. Philip IV of France, 1268 – 1314
  21. William Wallace, 1270 – 1305
  22. Mansa Musa, c. 1280 – 1337
  23. Orhan, 1281 – 1362
  24. William of Ockham, c. 1288 – c. 1349

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When Cimabue died, Marco Polo was 47 or 48, Osman I was 43 or 44, Edward I was 62 or 63, Pope Boniface VIII was 66 or 67 and Philip IV of France was 33 or 34.

Born during Cimabue’s lifetime: Dante Alighieri, Marco Polo, Osman I, Giotto, William of Ockham, William Wallace, Philip IV of France and Orhan.

Not quite contemporaries: Genghis Khan died about 11 years before Cimabue was born, Ibn Battuta was born about a year after Cimabue died, Petrarch was born about a year after Cimabue died and Giovanni Boccaccio was born about 10 years after Cimabue died.

What happened in Cimabue’s lifetime

Where Cimabue’s contemporaries were born

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The 60 best-known contemporaries

60 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Cimabue. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1273.

  1. Dante Alighieri c. 1265 – 1321
  2. Marco Polo 1254 – 1324
  3. Thomas Aquinas 1225 – 1274
  4. Rumi 1207 – 1273
  5. Saadi Shirazi c. 1210 – 1292
  6. Kublai Khan 1215 – 1294
  7. Osman I 1258 – 1326
  8. Giotto c. 1272 – 1337
  9. William of Ockham c. 1288 – c. 1349
  10. Albertus Magnus c. 1200 – 1280
  11. Louis IX of France c. 1215 – 1270
  12. Roger Bacon c. 1220 – 1292
  13. Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor 1194 – 1250
  14. William Wallace 1270 – 1305
  15. Nasreddin 1208 – 1284
  16. Edward I 1239 – 1307
  17. Pope Boniface VIII 1235 – 1303
  18. Philip IV of France 1268 – 1314
  19. Orhan 1281 – 1362
  20. Mansa Musa c. 1280 – 1337
  21. Pope Celestine V 1215 – 1296
  22. Alexander Nevsky 1220 – 1263
  23. Batu Khan c. 1205 – c. 1255
  24. Hulegu Khan 1217 – 1265
  25. Bonaventure 1221 – 1274
  26. Pope John XXII 1244 – 1334
  27. Amir Khusrau 1253 – 1325
  28. Ibn Taymiyya c. 1263 – c. 1328
  29. Alfonso X of Castile 1221 – 1284
  30. Pope Clement V 1264 – 1314
  31. Duns Scotus 1266 – 1308
  32. Pope Benedict XII 1280 – 1342
  33. Pope Innocent VI c. 1284 – 1362
  34. Edward II 1284 – 1327
  35. Pope Urban IV c. 1185 – 1264
  36. Henry III of England 1207 – 1272
  37. Pope Gregory X 1210 – 1276
  38. Pope Clement VI 1291 – 1352
  39. Robert the Bruce 1274 – 1329
  40. Nasir al-Din al-Tusi 1201 – 1274
  41. Ramon Llull c. 1233 – c. 1316
  42. Pope Benedict XI 1240 – 1304
  43. Meister Eckhart c. 1260 – c. 1328
  44. Pope Clement IV 1190 – 1268
  45. Pope Nicholas III 1210s – 1280
  46. Pope Innocent V 1225 – 1276
  47. Pope Nicholas IV 1227 – 1292
  48. Pope John XXI c. 1213 – 1277
  49. Clare of Assisi 1194 – 1253
  50. Pope Adrian V 1205 – 1276
  51. Pope Martin IV 1220 – 1285
  52. Philip III of France 1245 – 1285
  53. Philip VI of France 1293 – 1350
  54. Pope Honorius IV c. 1210 – 1287
  55. Louis X of France 1289 – 1316
  56. Charles IV of France 1294 – 1328
  57. Duccio c. 1255 – 1319
  58. Rudolf I of Germany 1218 – 1291
  59. Charles I of Anjou 1226 – 1285
  60. Yunus Emre c. 1241 – c. 1321