Shota Rustaveli
Georgian poet
Born 1172 · died 1216
Who was alive at the same time as Shota Rustaveli?
When Shota Rustaveli was born, Genghis Khan was 9 or 10, Saladin was 33 or 34, Averroes was 45 or 46, Zhu Xi was 41 or 42 and Richard I of England was 14 or 15.
When Shota Rustaveli died, Genghis Khan was 53 or 54, Rumi was 8 or 9, Kublai Khan was about a year old and Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor was 20 or 21.
Born during Shota Rustaveli’s lifetime: Rumi, Francis of Assisi, Saadi, Kublai Khan, Albertus Magnus, Louis IX of France and Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.
Not quite contemporaries: Thomas Aquinas was born 9 years after Shota Rustaveli died, Roger Bacon was born 2 years after Shota Rustaveli died and Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti died 3 years before Shota Rustaveli was born.