First Crusade 1096–1099

Belligerents: Vermandois, Alexios I Komnenos, Adhemar of Le Puy, Baldwin I of Jerusalem, Tancred, Prince of Galilee, Duchy of Brittany, Godfrey of Bouillon, County of Flanders

Who lived through the First Crusade

Well-known people alive during 1096–1099:

• Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) — Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
• Al-Ghazali (1056–1111) — Persian Sunni Muslim scholar and mystic (c.1058–1111)
• Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) — German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
• Peter Abelard (1079–1142) — French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
• Urban II (1035–1099) — 11th century pope and initiator of the Crusades
• Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109) — 11th‑century Benedictine monk, Archbishop of Canterbury, philosopher and theologian
• Bernard of Clairvaux (1091–1153) — Burgundian saint, abbot and theologian (1090-1153)
• Henry I of England (1068–1135) — King of England from 1100 to 1135 (1068–1135)
• Callixtus II (1065–1124) — Pope from 1119 to 1124
• Paschal II (1050–1118) — Head of the Catholic Church from 1099 to 1118
• William II of England (1056–1100) — King of England from 1087 to 1100
• Lucius II (1050–1145) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1144 to 1145
• Henry IV (1050–1106) — Holy Roman Emperor from 1084 to 1105
• Godfrey of Bouillon (1060–1100) — Medieval Frankish knight
• Alexios I Komnenos (1048–1118) — Byzantine emperor (1048–1118)
• Gelasius II (1060–1119) — Pope from 1118 to 1119
• Anna Komnene (1083–1153) — Byzantine princess and historian
• Stephen, King of England (1095–1154) — King of England from 1135 to 1154
• Louis VI of France (1081–1137) — king of the Franks from 1108 to 1137
• Philip I of France (1052–1108) — king of the Franks from 1060 to 1108
• Abdul Qadir Gilani (1078–1166) — Sunni Muslim preacher, mystic and jurist (1078–1166)
• Shri Ramanujacharya (1017–) — 12th-century Iconic indian social reformer and proponent of the Vishishtadvaita Vedanta school of philosophy.
• John II Komnenos (1087–1143) — Byzantine Emperor from 1118 to 1144
• Vladimir II Monomakh (1053–1125) — Grand Prince of Kiev (1053-1125)
• Adam of Bremen (1085–1100) — 11th-century German historian and chronicler

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