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The Connections of King John of England
King of England from 1199 to 1216 Every person recorded alongside King John of England in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside King John of England in the ledgers of the archive.
- Spouses
- Isabel, Countess of Gloucester, Isabella of Angoulême
- Children
- Henry III of England, Richard of Cornwall, Joan of England, Isabella of England, Eleanor of Leicester, Joan, Lady of Wales, Richard FitzRoy, Oliver fitz Regis, Osbert Gifford, Geoffrey FitzRoy, John FitzJohn, Odo FitzRoy
- Siblings
- Richard the Lionheart, Eleanor of England, Joan of England, Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony, Alice of France, Marie of France, Countess of Champagne, William IX, Count of Poitiers, Henry the Young King, Geoffrey II, William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 1166 to 1216.
Medieval era
Rumi
September 30, 1207 – December 17, 1273
Persian poet and Sufi mystic, among the best-selling poets in the world today
Medieval era
Francis of Assisi
June 24, 1182 – October 3, 1226
Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2–1226)
Medieval era
Hildegard of Bingen
1098 – September 17, 1179
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
Medieval era
Al-Musta'sim
1213 – February 20, 1258
37th and last Abbasid Caliph (r. 1242–1258)
Medieval era
Eleanor of Aquitaine
1124 – April 1, 1204
Queen consort of France; Queen consort of England; suo jure Duchess of Aquitaine; patroness
Medieval era
Richard the Lionheart
September 8, 1157 – April 6, 1199
King of England from 1189 to 1199 (1157–1199)
Medieval era
Frederick Barbarossa
1122 – June 10, 1190
Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 to 1190
Medieval era
Saladin
1138 – March 4, 1193
Sultan who united the Muslim world and retook Jerusalem with famed chivalry
Medieval era
Genghis Khan
May 31, 1162 – August 25, 1227
Founder of the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire in history
Medieval era
Kublai Khan
1215 – 1294
Founding emperor of the Yuan dynasty, grandson of Genghis Khan (1215–1294)
Medieval era
Fibonacci
1170 – c. 1240
Italian mathematician (c.1170–c.1240/50)
Medieval era
Maimonides
March 30, 1138 – December 13, 1204
Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)