Who Was Alive
Vladimir the Great
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Vladimir the Great

Monarch

Born c. AD 956 · died 15 July 1015
Also known as Volodymyr Sviatoslavych, Volodymyr the Great, Vladimir Svyatoslavich

Who was alive at the same time as Vladimir the Great?

  1. Pope Benedict V, c. AD 900 – AD 965
  2. Otto the Great, AD 912 – AD 973
  3. Pope Leo VIII, c. AD 915 – AD 965
  4. Pope John XII, c. AD 937 – AD 964
  5. Hugh Capet, AD 940 – AD 996
  6. Sviatoslav I, c. AD 942 – AD 972
  7. Ferdowsi, AD 940 – c. 1020
  8. Vladimir the Great, c. AD 956 – 1015
  9. Ibn al-Haytham, c. AD 965 – 1039
  10. Sei Shōnagon, c. AD 966 – c. 1025
  11. Pope Sergius IV, c. AD 970 – 1012
  12. Leif Erikson, c. AD 972 – c. 1020
  13. Pope Gregory V, AD 972 – AD 999
  14. Stephen I of Hungary, c. AD 975 – 1038
  15. Pope John XIX, c. AD 975 – 1032
  16. Al-Biruni, AD 973 – 1048
  17. Avicenna, c. AD 981 – 1037
  18. Pope Benedict VIII, c. AD 980 – 1024
  19. Pope Nicholas II, 990s – 1061
  20. Cnut, AD 994 – 1035
  21. Pope Gregory VI, c. 1000 – 1048
  22. Pope Damasus II, c. 1000 – 1048
  23. Pope Leo IX, 1002 – 1054
  24. Pope Clement II, 1005 – 1047

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When Vladimir the Great died, Ferdowsi was 75, Al-Biruni was 41, Cnut was 20 or 21, Pope Leo IX was 13 and Pope Clement II was 9.

Born during Vladimir the Great’s lifetime: Avicenna, Al-Biruni, Ibn al-Haytham, Leif Erikson, Pope Gregory V, Cnut, Pope Leo IX and Pope Benedict VIII.

Not quite contemporaries: William the Conqueror was born about 12 years after Vladimir the Great died, Al-Farabi died about 3 years before Vladimir the Great was born, Harold Godwinson was born about 5 years after Vladimir the Great died and Æthelstan died about 15 years before Vladimir the Great was born.

Where Vladimir the Great’s contemporaries were born

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Birthplaces as a list

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The 38 best-known contemporaries

38 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Vladimir the Great. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 987.

  1. Avicenna c. AD 981 – 1037
  2. Ferdowsi AD 940 – c. 1020
  3. Al-Biruni AD 973 – 1048
  4. Ibn al-Haytham c. AD 965 – 1039
  5. Leif Erikson c. AD 972 – c. 1020
  6. Otto the Great AD 912 – AD 973
  7. Pope John XII c. AD 937 – AD 964
  8. Pope Benedict V c. AD 900 – AD 965
  9. Hugh Capet AD 940 – AD 996
  10. Pope Gregory V AD 972 – AD 999
  11. Pope Leo VIII c. AD 915 – AD 965
  12. Cnut AD 994 – 1035
  13. Pope Leo IX 1002 – 1054
  14. Sviatoslav I c. AD 942 – AD 972
  15. Pope Benedict VIII c. AD 980 – 1024
  16. Pope Gregory VI c. 1000 – 1048
  17. Pope Clement II 1005 – 1047
  18. Stephen I of Hungary c. AD 975 – 1038
  19. Pope Nicholas II 990s – 1061
  20. Pope John XIX c. AD 975 – 1032
  21. Pope Damasus II c. 1000 – 1048
  22. Sei Shōnagon c. AD 966 – c. 1025
  23. Pope Sergius IV c. AD 970 – 1012
  24. Basil II AD 958 – 1025
  25. Constantine VII AD 905 – AD 959
  26. Bolesław I the Brave AD 967 – 1025
  27. Pope Sylvester III c. 1000 – c. 1065
  28. Erik the Red c. AD 950 – 1003
  29. Yaroslav the Wise AD 978 – 1054
  30. Mahmud of Ghazni AD 971 – 1030
  31. Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor AD 955 – AD 983
  32. Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor AD 973 – 1024
  33. Henry I of France 1008 – 1060
  34. Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor AD 980 – 1002
  35. Olga of Kiev c. AD 890 – AD 969
  36. Robert II of France AD 972 – 1031
  37. Al-Ma'arri AD 973 – 1057
  38. Guido of Arezzo c. AD 992 – 1050