Who Was Alive
Duns Scotus
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Duns Scotus

Scottish priest and friar

Born 1266 · died 8 November 1308, aged 41 or 42
Also known as John Duns Scotus, Blessed John Duns Scotus, Johannes Duns Scotus

Who was alive at the same time as Duns Scotus?

  1. Albertus Magnus, c. 1200 – 1280
  2. Rumi, 1207 – 1273
  3. Saadi Shirazi, c. 1210 – 1292
  4. Nasreddin, 1208 – 1284
  5. Louis IX of France, c. 1215 – 1270
  6. Pope Celestine V, 1215 – 1296
  7. Kublai Khan, 1215 – 1294
  8. Roger Bacon, c. 1220 – 1292
  9. Bonaventure, 1221 – 1274
  10. Thomas Aquinas, 1225 – 1274
  11. Pope Boniface VIII, 1235 – 1303
  12. Edward I, 1239 – 1307
  13. Marco Polo, 1254 – 1324
  14. Osman I, 1258 – 1326
  15. Dante Alighieri, c. 1265 – 1321
  16. Duns Scotus, 1266 – 1308
  17. Giotto, c. 1272 – 1337
  18. Philip IV of France, 1268 – 1314
  19. William Wallace, 1270 – 1305
  20. Mansa Musa, c. 1280 – 1337
  21. Orhan, 1281 – 1362
  22. William of Ockham, c. 1288 – c. 1349
  23. Ibn Battuta, 1304 – c. 1368
  24. Petrarch, 1304 – 1374

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When Duns Scotus was born, Marco Polo was 11 or 12, Rumi was 58 or 59, Kublai Khan was 50 or 51, Osman I was 7 or 8 and Nasreddin was 57 or 58.

When Duns Scotus died, Marco Polo was 54, Ibn Battuta was 4, Petrarch was 4, Osman I was 50 and Philip IV of France was 40.

Born during Duns Scotus’s lifetime: Ibn Battuta, Petrarch, Giotto, William of Ockham, William Wallace, Philip IV of France, Orhan and Mansa Musa.

Not quite contemporaries: Hafez was born about 15 years after Duns Scotus died, Giovanni Boccaccio was born about 5 years after Duns Scotus died, Edward III was born about 4 years after Duns Scotus died and John Wycliffe was born about 12 years after Duns Scotus died.

Where Duns Scotus’s contemporaries were born

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Birthplaces as a list

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The 57 best-known contemporaries

57 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Duns Scotus. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1288.

  1. Dante Alighieri c. 1265 – 1321
  2. Marco Polo 1254 – 1324
  3. Thomas Aquinas 1225 – 1274
  4. Ibn Battuta 1304 – c. 1368
  5. Petrarch 1304 – 1374
  6. Rumi 1207 – 1273
  7. Saadi Shirazi c. 1210 – 1292
  8. Kublai Khan 1215 – 1294
  9. Osman I 1258 – 1326
  10. Giotto c. 1272 – 1337
  11. William of Ockham c. 1288 – c. 1349
  12. Albertus Magnus c. 1200 – 1280
  13. Louis IX of France c. 1215 – 1270
  14. Roger Bacon c. 1220 – 1292
  15. William Wallace 1270 – 1305
  16. Nasreddin 1208 – 1284
  17. Edward I 1239 – 1307
  18. Pope Boniface VIII 1235 – 1303
  19. Philip IV of France 1268 – 1314
  20. Orhan 1281 – 1362
  21. Mansa Musa c. 1280 – 1337
  22. Pope Celestine V 1215 – 1296
  23. Bonaventure 1221 – 1274
  24. Pope John XXII 1244 – 1334
  25. Amir Khusrau 1253 – 1325
  26. Ibn Taymiyya c. 1263 – c. 1328
  27. Alfonso X of Castile 1221 – 1284
  28. Pope Clement V 1264 – 1314
  29. Pope Benedict XII 1280 – 1342
  30. Pope Innocent VI c. 1284 – 1362
  31. Edward II 1284 – 1327
  32. Henry III of England 1207 – 1272
  33. Pope Gregory X 1210 – 1276
  34. Pope Clement VI 1291 – 1352
  35. Robert the Bruce 1274 – 1329
  36. Nasir al-Din al-Tusi 1201 – 1274
  37. Ramon Llull c. 1233 – c. 1316
  38. Pope Benedict XI 1240 – 1304
  39. Meister Eckhart c. 1260 – c. 1328
  40. Pope Clement IV 1190 – 1268
  41. Pope Nicholas III 1210s – 1280
  42. Pope Innocent V 1225 – 1276
  43. Pope Nicholas IV 1227 – 1292
  44. Pope John XXI c. 1213 – 1277
  45. Pope Adrian V 1205 – 1276
  46. Pope Martin IV 1220 – 1285
  47. Philip III of France 1245 – 1285
  48. Philip VI of France 1293 – 1350
  49. Pope Honorius IV c. 1210 – 1287
  50. Bridget of Sweden 1303 – 1373
  51. Louis X of France 1289 – 1316
  52. Charles IV of France 1294 – 1328
  53. Duccio c. 1255 – 1319
  54. Rudolf I of Germany 1218 – 1291
  55. Charles I of Anjou 1226 – 1285
  56. Cimabue c. 1240 – 1302
  57. Yunus Emre c. 1241 – c. 1321