Who Was Alive

Hildegard of Bingen

German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church

Born c. 1098 · died 17 September 1179

Who was alive at the same time as Hildegard of Bingen?

  1. Anselm of Canterbury
  2. Omar Khayyám
  3. Al-Ghazali
  4. Peter Abelard
  5. Bernard of Clairvaux
  6. Hildegard of Bingen
  7. Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti
  8. Frederick Barbarossa
  9. Averroes
  10. Zhu Xi
  11. Moshe ben Maimon
  12. Saladin
  13. Nizami Ganjavi
  14. Richard I of England
  15. Innocent III
  16. Genghis Khan
  17. John, King of England
  18. Shota Rustaveli
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 Hildegard of Bingen died, Genghis Khan was 17, Saladin was 40 or 41, Averroes was 53, Zhu Xi was 48 and Richard I of England was 22.

Born during Hildegard of Bingen’s lifetime: Genghis Khan, Saladin, Averroes, Zhu Xi, Richard I of England, Moshe ben Maimon, Frederick Barbarossa and Shota Rustaveli.

Not quite contemporaries: Francis of Assisi was born about a year after Hildegard of Bingen died and William the Conqueror died 9 years before Hildegard of Bingen was born.

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