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Pope Leo IV
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Pope Leo IV

Catholic priest who served as Pope

Born c. AD 790 · died 17 July AD 855
Also known as Leo IV, Pope Saint Leo IV

Who was alive at the same time as Pope Leo IV?

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When Pope Leo IV died, Alfred the Great was 5 or 6, Charles the Bald was 32, Muhammad al-Bukhari was 44, Ahmad ibn Hanbal was 74 and Pope Adrian II was 62 or 63.

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

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

Where Pope Leo IV’s contemporaries were born

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The 68 best-known contemporaries

68 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pope Leo IV. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 824.

  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. Pope Adrian I AD 700 – AD 795
  13. Muhammad al-Bukhari AD 810 – AD 870
  14. Pope Gregory IV c. AD 795 – AD 844
  15. Pope John VIII c. AD 820 – AD 882
  16. Al-Shafi'i AD 767 – AD 820
  17. Ahmad ibn Hanbal AD 780 – AD 855
  18. Pope Adrian II AD 792 – AD 872
  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. Malik ibn Anas c. AD 711 – AD 795
  31. Charles the Fat c. AD 836 – AD 888
  32. Rurik AD 830 – AD 879
  33. Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj AD 821 – AD 875
  34. Al-Tabari c. AD 839 – AD 922
  35. Lothair I AD 795 – AD 855
  36. Irene of Athens c. AD 752 – AD 803
  37. Rabia Basri 710s – AD 801
  38. Alcuin c. AD 740 – AD 804
  39. John Scotus Eriugena 800s – AD 877
  40. Louis the German c. AD 806 – AD 876
  41. Arnulf of Carinthia c. AD 850 – AD 899
  42. Al-Ma'mun c. AD 786 – c. AD 833
  43. Nikephoros I c. AD 750 – AD 811
  44. Bai Juyi AD 772 – AD 846
  45. Al-Jahiz AD 775 – c. AD 869
  46. Ecgberht, King of Wessex AD 771 – AD 839
  47. Han Yu AD 768 – AD 824
  48. Ali al-Rida AD 770 – AD 818
  49. Michael I Rangabe c. AD 770 – AD 844
  50. Leo V the Armenian AD 775 – AD 820
  51. Paul the Deacon c. AD 720 – c. AD 799
  52. Constantine VI AD 771 – c. AD 798
  53. Michael II AD 770 – AD 829
  54. Staurakios AD 775 – AD 812
  55. Abd ar-Rahman II AD 792 – AD 852
  56. Musa al-Kazim AD 745 – c. AD 799
  57. Krum AD 755 – AD 814
  58. Einhard c. AD 774 – AD 840
  59. Kūkai AD 774 – AD 835
  60. Al-Mu'tasim AD 796 – AD 842
  61. Theophanes the Confessor AD 759 – AD 817
  62. Rabanus Maurus c. AD 783 – AD 856
  63. Babak Khorramdin AD 798 – AD 838
  64. Pepin of Italy AD 777 – AD 810
  65. Al-Amin AD 787 – AD 813
  66. Emperor Kanmu AD 737 – AD 806
  67. Hisham I of Córdoba AD 757 – AD 796
  68. Alfonso II of Asturias AD 759 – AD 842