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Pope John XI
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Pope John XI

Catholic priest who served as Pope

Born c. AD 910 · died AD 936
Also known as John XI, Ioannes XI

Who was alive at the same time as Pope John XI?

  1. Al-Tabari, c. AD 839 – AD 922
  2. Al-Hallaj, c. AD 858 – AD 922
  3. Pope John X, c. AD 860 – c. AD 929
  4. Rudaki, AD 859 – AD 941
  5. Robert I of France, AD 860 – AD 923
  6. Abu Bakr al-Razi, AD 866 – AD 925
  7. Al-Farabi, c. AD 870 – AD 951
  8. Henry the Fowler, c. AD 876 – AD 936
  9. Charles the Simple, AD 879 – AD 929
  10. Olga of Kiev, c. AD 890 – AD 969
  11. Æthelstan, c. AD 895 – AD 939
  12. Al-Masudi, c. AD 896 – AD 957
  13. Pope Benedict V, c. AD 900 – AD 965
  14. Constantine VII, AD 905 – AD 959
  15. Pope John XI, c. AD 910 – AD 936
  16. Otto the Great, AD 912 – AD 973
  17. Pope Leo VIII, c. AD 915 – AD 965
  18. Edmund I, c. AD 920 – AD 946

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When Pope John XI died, Otto the Great was 23 or 24 and Constantine VII was 30 or 31.

Born during Pope John XI’s lifetime: Pope Leo VIII and Edmund I.

Not quite contemporaries: Ferdowsi was born about 3 years after Pope John XI died, Alfred the Great died about 7 years before Pope John XI was born, Hugh Capet was born about 3 years after Pope John XI died and Pope Formosus died about 12 years before Pope John XI was born.

Where Pope John XI’s contemporaries were born

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