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Also Known As Shāh Rukh • Shāh Rokh Mīrzā
Born August 30, 1377 • Uzbekistan
Died March 12, 1447 (aged 69)
House / Dynasty Timurid dynasty
Notable Family Members father Timur • son Ulūgh Beg
portrait of Charlemagne by Albrecht Dürer
Charlemagne
Holy Roman emperor [747?–814]
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Kangxi
emperor of Qing dynasty
Charles Le Brun: Portrait of King Louis XIV
Louis XIV
king of France
Henry IV, undated copperplate engraving.
Henry IV
king of France
Akhenaten
Akhenaten
king of Egypt
Francis I
Francis I
king of France
Paul III
Paul III
pope
Leo X
Leo X
pope
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney
English author and statesman
Akbar
Akbar
Mughal emperor
Henry the Navigator
Henry the Navigator
prince of Portugal
Qianlong
Qianlong
emperor of Qing dynasty
Timur
Timur
Turkic conqueror
Julius II
pope
al-Maʾmūn
ʿAbbāsid caliph
Alfred the Great
Alfred
king of Wessex
Lorenzo de' Medici
Lorenzo de’ Medici
Italian statesman
Darius I
Darius I
king of Persia
ʿAbbās I
ʿAbbās I
Ṣafavid shah of Persia

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