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Edmund I
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Edmund I

Monarch of England

Born c. AD 920 · died 26 May AD 946
Also known as Edmund the Just, Eadmund the Deed-Doer, Edmund the Deed-Doer

Who was alive at the same time as Edmund I?

  1. Pope John X, c. AD 860 – c. AD 929
  2. Rudaki, AD 859 – AD 941
  3. Robert I of France, AD 860 – AD 923
  4. Abu Bakr al-Razi, AD 866 – AD 925
  5. Al-Farabi, c. AD 870 – AD 951
  6. Henry the Fowler, c. AD 876 – AD 936
  7. Charles the Simple, AD 879 – AD 929
  8. Olga of Kiev, c. AD 890 – AD 969
  9. Æthelstan, c. AD 895 – AD 939
  10. Al-Masudi, c. AD 896 – AD 957
  11. Pope Benedict V, c. AD 900 – AD 965
  12. Constantine VII, AD 905 – AD 959
  13. Pope John XI, c. AD 910 – AD 936
  14. Otto the Great, AD 912 – AD 973
  15. Pope Leo VIII, c. AD 915 – AD 965
  16. Edmund I, c. AD 920 – AD 946
  17. Pope John XII, c. AD 937 – AD 964
  18. Hugh Capet, AD 940 – AD 996
  19. Sviatoslav I, c. AD 942 – AD 972
  20. Ferdowsi, AD 940 – c. 1020

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When Edmund I died, Ferdowsi was 6, Otto the Great was 33, Hugh Capet was 5 or 6 and Constantine VII was 41.

Born during Edmund I’s lifetime: Ferdowsi, Pope John XII, Hugh Capet and Sviatoslav I.

Not quite contemporaries: Vladimir the Great was born about 8 years after Edmund I died, Pope Sergius III died about 7 years before Edmund I was born, Basil II was born about 12 years after Edmund I died and Erik the Red was born about 2 years after Edmund I died.

Where Edmund I’s contemporaries were born

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