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Manuel II Palaiologos
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Manuel II Palaiologos

Byzantine emperor

Born 27 June 1350 · died 21 July 1425, aged 75

Who was alive at the same time as Manuel II Palaiologos?

  1. Orhan, 1281 – 1362
  2. Ibn Battuta, 1304 – c. 1368
  3. Petrarch, 1304 – 1374
  4. Giovanni Boccaccio, 1313 – 1375
  5. Hafez, c. 1325 – c. 1390
  6. Ibn Khaldun, c. 1332 – c. 1406
  7. Timur, 1336 – 1405
  8. Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1343 – c. 1400
  9. Manuel II Palaiologos, 1350 – 1425
  10. Bayezid I, c. 1354 – 1403
  11. Jan Hus, c. 1375 – 1415
  12. Zheng He, 1371 – c. 1435
  13. Pope Callixtus III, 1379 – 1458
  14. Pope Eugene IV, 1383 – 1447
  15. Donatello, c. 1386 – 1466
  16. Henry V of England, 1386 – 1422
  17. Jan van Eyck, c. 1390 – 1441
  18. Johannes Gutenberg, c. 1400 – 1468
  19. Pope Nicholas V, c. 1397 – 1455
  20. Leon Battista Alberti, 1404 – 1472
  21. Pope Pius II, 1405 – 1464
  22. Joan of Arc, c. 1412 – 1431
  23. Jami, 1414 – 1492
  24. Louis XI, 1423 – 1483

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When Manuel II Palaiologos was born, Ibn Battuta was 46, Ibn Khaldun was 17 or 18, Petrarch was 45, Timur was 14 and Giovanni Boccaccio was 36 or 37.

When Manuel II Palaiologos died, Zheng He was 53 or 54, Pope Pius II was 19, Leon Battista Alberti was 21, Pope Callixtus III was 46 and Jami was 10.

Born during Manuel II Palaiologos’s lifetime: Joan of Arc, Johannes Gutenberg, Zheng He, Donatello, Jan Hus, Pope Pius II, Leon Battista Alberti and Pope Callixtus III.

Not quite contemporaries: Mehmed II was born about 7 years after Manuel II Palaiologos died, Pope Alexander VI was born about 4 years after Manuel II Palaiologos died, Giotto died about 13 years before Manuel II Palaiologos was born and François Villon was born about 6 years after Manuel II Palaiologos died.

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The 76 best-known contemporaries

76 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Manuel II Palaiologos. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1388.

  1. Joan of Arc c. 1412 – 1431
  2. Johannes Gutenberg c. 1400 – 1468
  3. Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1343 – c. 1400
  4. Ibn Battuta 1304 – c. 1368
  5. Ibn Khaldun c. 1332 – c. 1406
  6. Petrarch 1304 – 1374
  7. Hafez c. 1325 – c. 1390
  8. Timur 1336 – 1405
  9. Zheng He 1371 – c. 1435
  10. Giovanni Boccaccio 1313 – 1375
  11. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  12. Jan Hus c. 1375 – 1415
  13. Pope Pius II 1405 – 1464
  14. Leon Battista Alberti 1404 – 1472
  15. Pope Callixtus III 1379 – 1458
  16. Henry V of England 1386 – 1422
  17. Jan van Eyck c. 1390 – 1441
  18. Jami 1414 – 1492
  19. Orhan 1281 – 1362
  20. Bayezid I c. 1354 – 1403
  21. Pope Eugene IV 1383 – 1447
  22. Pope Nicholas V c. 1397 – 1455
  23. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  24. Edward III 1312 – 1377
  25. John Wycliffe 1320s – 1384
  26. Skanderbeg 1405 – 1468
  27. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  28. Catherine of Siena 1347 – 1380
  29. Nicholas of Cusa 1401 – 1464
  30. Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor 1316 – 1378
  31. Pope Paul II 1417 – 1471
  32. Pope Martin V c. 1369 – 1431
  33. Murad II 1404 – 1451
  34. Christine de Pizan 1364 – 1430
  35. Charles VI of France 1368 – 1422
  36. Masaccio 1401 – 1428
  37. Pope Urban V 1310 – 1370
  38. Ulugh Beg 1394 – 1449
  39. Pope Gregory XI c. 1331 – 1378
  40. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  41. Charles VII of France 1403 – 1461
  42. Pope Innocent VI c. 1284 – 1362
  43. Murad I 1326 – 1389
  44. Fra Angelico c. 1396 – 1455
  45. Sejong the Great 1397 – 1450
  46. Pope Clement VI 1291 – 1352
  47. Pope Urban VI c. 1318 – 1389
  48. Pope Gregory XII c. 1335 – 1417
  49. Władysław II Jagiełło 1362 – 1434
  50. Constantine XI Palaiologos 1404 – 1453
  51. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  52. Charles V of France 1338 – 1380
  53. Richard II of England 1367 – c. 1400
  54. Pope Innocent VII c. 1338 – 1406
  55. Henry IV of England 1367 – 1413
  56. Mehmed I 1386 – 1421
  57. Pope Boniface IX 1356 – 1404
  58. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor 1368 – 1437
  59. Andrei Rublev 1360s – 1430
  60. Philip VI of France 1293 – 1350
  61. Filippo Brunelleschi 1377 – 1446
  62. Bridget of Sweden 1303 – 1373
  63. Hongwu Emperor 1328 – 1398
  64. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  65. John II of France 1319 – 1364
  66. Prince Henry the Navigator 1394 – 1460
  67. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  68. Edward the Black Prince 1330 – 1376
  69. Zeami Motokiyo c. 1363 – 1443
  70. Margaret I of Denmark 1353 – 1412
  71. James I of Scotland 1394 – 1437
  72. Dmitry Donskoy 1350 – 1389
  73. Cosimo de' Medici 1389 – 1464
  74. Rogier van der Weyden c. 1396 – 1464
  75. Casimir III the Great 1310 – 1370
  76. Lorenzo Valla 1407 – 1457