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Matthias Corvinus
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Matthias Corvinus

King of Bohemia

Born 23–24 February 1443 · died 6–7 April 1490, aged 47
Also known as Matthias I, Mathias, Mattia Corvino

Who was alive at the same time as Matthias Corvinus?

  1. Donatello, c. 1386 – 1466
  2. Johannes Gutenberg, c. 1400 – 1468
  3. Pope Alexander VI, c. 1431 – 1503
  4. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  5. Sandro Botticelli, c. 1445 – 1510
  6. Matthias Corvinus, 1443 – 1490
  7. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  8. Isabella I of Castile, 1451 – 1504
  9. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  10. Amerigo Vespucci, 1454 – 1512
  11. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  12. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  13. Guru Nanak, 1469 – 1539
  14. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  15. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  16. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  17. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  18. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  19. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  20. Babur, 1483 – 1530
  21. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  22. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  23. Huldrych Zwingli, 1484 – 1531
  24. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547

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When Matthias Corvinus was born, Mehmed II was 10, François Villon was 11 or 12, Pope Pius II was 37, Leon Battista Alberti was 39 and Pope Callixtus III was 64.

When Matthias Corvinus died, Leonardo da Vinci was 37, Michelangelo was 15, Martin Luther was 6, Christopher Columbus was 38 or 39 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 20.

Born during Matthias Corvinus’s lifetime: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Christopher Columbus, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan and Raphael.

Not quite contemporaries: Joan of Arc died about 12 years before Matthias Corvinus was born, Jacques Cartier was born about 2 years after Matthias Corvinus died, Zheng He died about 7 years before Matthias Corvinus was born and Suleiman the Magnificent was born about 4 years after Matthias Corvinus died.

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The 112 best-known contemporaries

112 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Matthias Corvinus. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1467.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  7. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  8. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  9. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  10. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  11. Johannes Gutenberg c. 1400 – 1468
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  14. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  15. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  16. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  17. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  18. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  19. Babur 1483 – 1530
  20. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  21. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  22. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  23. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  24. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  25. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  26. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  27. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  28. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  29. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  30. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  31. Pope Pius II 1405 – 1464
  32. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  33. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  34. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  35. Leon Battista Alberti 1404 – 1472
  36. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  37. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  38. Pope Callixtus III 1379 – 1458
  39. Jami 1414 – 1492
  40. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  41. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  42. Pope Eugene IV 1383 – 1447
  43. Pope Nicholas V c. 1397 – 1455
  44. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  45. Skanderbeg 1405 – 1468
  46. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  47. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  48. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  49. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  50. Nicholas of Cusa 1401 – 1464
  51. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  52. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  53. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  54. Pope Paul II 1417 – 1471
  55. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  56. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  57. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  58. Murad II 1404 – 1451
  59. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  60. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  61. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  62. Ulugh Beg 1394 – 1449
  63. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  64. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  65. Charles VII of France 1403 – 1461
  66. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  67. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  68. Fra Angelico c. 1396 – 1455
  69. Sejong the Great 1397 – 1450
  70. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  71. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  72. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  73. Constantine XI Palaiologos 1404 – 1453
  74. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  75. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  76. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  77. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  78. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  79. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  80. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  81. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  82. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  83. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  84. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  85. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  86. Filippo Brunelleschi 1377 – 1446
  87. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  88. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  89. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  90. Prince Henry the Navigator 1394 – 1460
  91. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  92. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  93. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  94. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  95. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  96. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  97. Zeami Motokiyo c. 1363 – 1443
  98. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  99. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  100. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  101. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  102. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  103. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  104. Cosimo de' Medici 1389 – 1464
  105. Rogier van der Weyden c. 1396 – 1464
  106. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  107. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  108. James IV 1473 – 1513
  109. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  110. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  111. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535
  112. Lorenzo Valla 1407 – 1457