The writer, abbess, composer and philosopher Hildegard von Bingen is believed to have been born in 1098 and died in 1179.
She was therefore contemporary with the famous English martyr Thomas Becket, with the Anglo-Norman kings William Rufus, Henry I, Stephen and Henry II; with the German kings Henry V, Lothair III, Conrad III, Henry Berengar, Frederick Barbarossa, Henry VI and Frederick II; with Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb (Saladin); with the writers and chroniclers Henry of Huntingdon, John of Salisbury, Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales) and Alexander Neckham; with the famous writers Chretien de Troyes and Marie de France; and with these Popes:
1088 - 1099: Pope Urban II
1099 - 1118: Pope Paschal II
1118 - 1119: Pope Gelasius II
1119 - 1124: Pope Callistus II
1124 - 1130: Pope Honorius II
1130 - 1143: Pope Innocent II
1143 - 1144: Pope Celestine II
1144 - 1145: Pope Lucius II
1145 - 1153: Pope Eugene III
1153 - 1154: Pope Anastasius IV
1154 - 1159: Pope Adrian IV
1159 - 1181: Pope Alexander III
