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Lothair I
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Lothair I

Writer

Born AD 795 · died 29 September AD 855, aged 59 or 60
Also known as Lothar I, Lotharius, Lodharius

Who was alive at the same time as Lothair I?

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When Lothair I was born, Jabir ibn Hayyan was 73 or 74, Harun al-Rashid was 28 or 29, Pope Leo III was 44 or 45, Louis the Pious was 16 or 17 and Al-Shafi'i was 27 or 28.

When Lothair I died, Alfred the Great was 5 or 6, Charles the Bald was 32, Muhammad al-Bukhari was 45, Pope Adrian II was 62 or 63 and Pope Marinus I was 24 or 25.

Born during Lothair I’s lifetime: Alfred the Great, Al-Kindi, Charles the Bald, Muhammad al-Bukhari, Pope John VIII, Pope Formosus, Pope Benedict III and Pope Marinus I.

Not quite contemporaries: Al-Farabi was born about 13 years after Lothair I died, Abu Bakr al-Razi was born about 11 years after Lothair I died, Pope Sergius III was born about 3 years after Lothair I died and Pope John X was born about 3 years after Lothair I died.

Where Lothair I’s contemporaries were born

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The 66 best-known contemporaries

66 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Lothair I. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 826.

  1. Charlemagne c. AD 744 – AD 814
  2. Al-Khwarizmi c. AD 780 – c. AD 850
  3. Abu Nuwas c. AD 759 – AD 814
  4. Alfred the Great AD 849 – c. AD 899
  5. Jabir ibn Hayyan AD 721 – AD 815
  6. Harun al-Rashid AD 766 – AD 809
  7. Adi Shankara c. AD 788 – c. AD 821
  8. Pope Leo III AD 750 – c. AD 816
  9. Louis the Pious AD 778 – AD 840
  10. Al-Kindi c. AD 801 – c. AD 872
  11. Charles the Bald AD 823 – AD 877
  12. Muhammad al-Bukhari AD 810 – AD 870
  13. Pope Gregory IV c. AD 795 – AD 844
  14. Pope John VIII c. AD 820 – AD 882
  15. Al-Shafi'i AD 767 – AD 820
  16. Ahmad ibn Hanbal AD 780 – AD 855
  17. Pope Adrian II AD 792 – AD 872
  18. Pope Leo IV c. AD 790 – AD 855
  19. Pope Formosus c. AD 816 – AD 896
  20. Pope Paschal I c. AD 775 – AD 824
  21. Pope Eugene II c. AD 780 – AD 827
  22. Pope Benedict III c. AD 810 – AD 858
  23. Pope Marinus I AD 830 – AD 884
  24. Pope Nicholas I c. AD 820 – AD 867
  25. Pope John IX c. AD 840 – AD 900
  26. Pope Stephen IV c. AD 770 – AD 817
  27. Pope Sergius II c. AD 790 – AD 847
  28. Pope Valentine c. AD 780 – AD 827
  29. Pope Theodore II AD 840 – AD 897
  30. Charles the Fat c. AD 836 – AD 888
  31. Rurik AD 830 – AD 879
  32. Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj AD 821 – AD 875
  33. Al-Tabari c. AD 839 – AD 922
  34. Irene of Athens c. AD 752 – AD 803
  35. Rabia Basri 710s – AD 801
  36. Alcuin c. AD 740 – AD 804
  37. John Scotus Eriugena 800s – AD 877
  38. Louis the German c. AD 806 – AD 876
  39. Arnulf of Carinthia c. AD 850 – AD 899
  40. Al-Ma'mun c. AD 786 – c. AD 833
  41. Nikephoros I c. AD 750 – AD 811
  42. Bai Juyi AD 772 – AD 846
  43. Al-Jahiz AD 775 – c. AD 869
  44. Ecgberht, King of Wessex AD 771 – AD 839
  45. Han Yu AD 768 – AD 824
  46. Ali al-Rida AD 770 – AD 818
  47. Michael I Rangabe c. AD 770 – AD 844
  48. Leo V the Armenian AD 775 – AD 820
  49. Paul the Deacon c. AD 720 – c. AD 799
  50. Constantine VI AD 771 – c. AD 798
  51. Michael II AD 770 – AD 829
  52. Staurakios AD 775 – AD 812
  53. Abd ar-Rahman II AD 792 – AD 852
  54. Musa al-Kazim AD 745 – c. AD 799
  55. Krum AD 755 – AD 814
  56. Einhard c. AD 774 – AD 840
  57. Kūkai AD 774 – AD 835
  58. Al-Mu'tasim AD 796 – AD 842
  59. Theophanes the Confessor AD 759 – AD 817
  60. Rabanus Maurus c. AD 783 – AD 856
  61. Babak Khorramdin AD 798 – AD 838
  62. Pepin of Italy AD 777 – AD 810
  63. Al-Amin AD 787 – AD 813
  64. Emperor Kanmu AD 737 – AD 806
  65. Hisham I of Córdoba AD 757 – AD 796
  66. Alfonso II of Asturias AD 759 – AD 842