Who Was Alive

Innocent III

Head of the Catholic Church from 1198 to 1216

Born 1160s · died 16 July 1216

Who was alive at the same time as Innocent III?

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 Innocent III died, Genghis Khan was 54, Rumi was 8, Kublai Khan was under a year old, Louis IX of France was 1 or 2 and John, King of England was 49.

Born during Innocent III’s lifetime: Rumi, Francis of Assisi, Saadi, Kublai Khan, Shota Rustaveli, Albertus Magnus, Louis IX of France and Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.

Not quite contemporaries: Thomas Aquinas was born 9 years after Innocent III died, Roger Bacon was born 2 years after Innocent III died and Bernard of Clairvaux died 7 years before Innocent III was born.

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