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Pope Urban VI
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Pope Urban VI

Politician who served as Pope

Born c. 1318 · died 15 October 1389
Also known as Urban VI

Who was alive at the same time as Pope Urban VI?

  1. Marco Polo, 1254 – 1324
  2. Osman I, 1258 – 1326
  3. Dante Alighieri, c. 1265 – 1321
  4. Giotto, c. 1272 – 1337
  5. Mansa Musa, c. 1280 – 1337
  6. Orhan, 1281 – 1362
  7. William of Ockham, c. 1288 – c. 1349
  8. Ibn Battuta, 1304 – c. 1368
  9. Petrarch, 1304 – 1374
  10. Edward III, 1312 – 1377
  11. Giovanni Boccaccio, 1313 – 1375
  12. Pope Urban VI, c. 1318 – 1389
  13. John Wycliffe, 1320s – 1384
  14. Hafez, c. 1325 – c. 1390
  15. Ibn Khaldun, c. 1332 – c. 1406
  16. Timur, 1336 – 1405
  17. Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1343 – c. 1400
  18. Bayezid I, c. 1354 – 1403
  19. Jan Hus, c. 1375 – 1415
  20. Zheng He, 1371 – c. 1435
  21. Pope Callixtus III, 1379 – 1458
  22. Pope Eugene IV, 1383 – 1447
  23. Donatello, c. 1386 – 1466
  24. Henry V of England, 1386 – 1422

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When Pope Urban VI died, Ibn Khaldun was 56 or 57, Timur was 53, Zheng He was 17 or 18, Pope Callixtus III was 10 and Henry V of England was 3.

Born during Pope Urban VI’s lifetime: Geoffrey Chaucer, Ibn Khaldun, Hafez, Timur, Zheng He, Donatello, Jan Hus and Pope Callixtus III.

Not quite contemporaries: Johannes Gutenberg was born about 4 years after Pope Urban VI died, William Wallace died about 11 years before Pope Urban VI was born, Leon Battista Alberti was born about 15 years after Pope Urban VI died and Edward I died about 9 years before Pope Urban VI was born.

What happened in Pope Urban VI’s lifetime

Where Pope Urban VI’s contemporaries were born

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The 64 best-known contemporaries

64 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pope Urban VI. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1355.

  1. Dante Alighieri c. 1265 – 1321
  2. Marco Polo 1254 – 1324
  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. Osman I 1258 – 1326
  14. Giotto c. 1272 – 1337
  15. William of Ockham c. 1288 – c. 1349
  16. Pope Callixtus III 1379 – 1458
  17. Henry V of England 1386 – 1422
  18. Orhan 1281 – 1362
  19. Bayezid I c. 1354 – 1403
  20. Pope Eugene IV 1383 – 1447
  21. Edward III 1312 – 1377
  22. John Wycliffe 1320s – 1384
  23. Mansa Musa c. 1280 – 1337
  24. Catherine of Siena 1347 – 1380
  25. Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor 1316 – 1378
  26. Pope Martin V c. 1369 – 1431
  27. Christine de Pizan 1364 – 1430
  28. Charles VI of France 1368 – 1422
  29. Pope John XXII 1244 – 1334
  30. Amir Khusrau 1253 – 1325
  31. Ibn Taymiyya c. 1263 – c. 1328
  32. Pope Urban V 1310 – 1370
  33. Pope Gregory XI c. 1331 – 1378
  34. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  35. Pope Benedict XII 1280 – 1342
  36. Pope Innocent VI c. 1284 – 1362
  37. Edward II 1284 – 1327
  38. Murad I 1326 – 1389
  39. Pope Clement VI 1291 – 1352
  40. Pope Gregory XII c. 1335 – 1417
  41. Władysław II Jagiełło 1362 – 1434
  42. Robert the Bruce 1274 – 1329
  43. Charles V of France 1338 – 1380
  44. Richard II of England 1367 – c. 1400
  45. Meister Eckhart c. 1260 – c. 1328
  46. Pope Innocent VII c. 1338 – 1406
  47. Henry IV of England 1367 – 1413
  48. Mehmed I 1386 – 1421
  49. Pope Boniface IX 1356 – 1404
  50. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor 1368 – 1437
  51. Andrei Rublev 1360s – 1430
  52. Philip VI of France 1293 – 1350
  53. Filippo Brunelleschi 1377 – 1446
  54. Bridget of Sweden 1303 – 1373
  55. Hongwu Emperor 1328 – 1398
  56. John II of France 1319 – 1364
  57. Charles IV of France 1294 – 1328
  58. Edward the Black Prince 1330 – 1376
  59. Zeami Motokiyo c. 1363 – 1443
  60. Margaret I of Denmark 1353 – 1412
  61. Manuel II Palaiologos 1350 – 1425
  62. Dmitry Donskoy 1350 – 1389
  63. Cosimo de' Medici 1389 – 1464
  64. Casimir III the Great 1310 – 1370