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TABLE OF CONTEMPORARY SOVEREIGNS.
| MUSLIM EMPIRE. | A.H. | A.D. | EASTERN EMPIRE. | WESTERN EMPIRE. | ENGLAND. SAXON HEPTARCHY. |
In drawing up this "Table of Contemporary Sovereigns," it has not been my aim to make a complete list of the kings and princes who held sway during the century and a half over which these tales extend. Such a task would be not only foreign to the subject, but within narrow limits impossible, considering the many divisions into which both England and Europe were then broke.I have only sought by means of a more or less familiar name amongst the rulers of those times to bring before the minds of readers more clearly than mere dates would bring it, the remote period at which the events treated of in the following pages occurred. |
| Muhammad | el-Hijrah | 622 | Heraclius I. and II. | Clothaire II., King of Burgundy and Austrasia. Dagobert I. Neustria. |
Edwin of Northumbria, King of all England except Kent.Eabald in Kent. | |
| Abu-Bekr | 11 | 632 | ||||
| ʾOmar-ibn-el-Khattáb | 13 | 634 | ||||
| ʾOthmân | 23 | 644 | Constans II. | Sigebert II., King of Austrasia. | ||
| ʾAly in Arabia | 35 | 655 | Constantine III. | |||
| Múâwiyah in Egypt and Syria | ||||||
| Hásan for six months, then Múâwiyah alone | 40 | 660 | 656. Clothaire III., King of Neustria. | Oswy of Northumbria | ||
| Yezîd I. | 60 | 680 | Childeric II., King of Austrasia. | |||
| Muâwîyah II., and in the Hijáz, ʾAbd-Allâh-ibn-Zubair | 64 | 684 | Justinianus II. | Pepin le Gros (d'Héristal) becomes master of Austrasia. Sole ruler of France, 687. | ||
| Marwân I. In the Hijáz, ʾAbd-Allâh | 64 | 684 | ||||
| ʾAbd-el-Málik | 65 | 684 | ||||
| el-Walîd I. | 86 | 705 | [trasia. | |||
| Sulaimân | 96 | 714 | Anastatius II. | 715. Charles Martel in Aus- | ||
| ʾOmar-ibn-ʾAbd-el-Aziz | 99 | 718 | Chilperic II. in Neustria. | |||
| Yezîd II. | 101 | 720 | 720. Thierri IV. in Neustria, Burgundy, and Austrasia. | |||
| Hishâm | 105 | 724 | ||||
| el-Walîd II. | 125 | 743 | Constantine IV. | 731. Ethelbald of Mercia, King of England south of the Humber, | ||
| Yezîd III. | 126 | 744 | 741. Carloman and Pepin. | |||
| Ibrahim | 126 | 744 | 742. Childeric III. | |||
| Marwân II. | 127 | 744 | ||||
| Abuʾl-ʾAbbâs, es Saffâh | 132 | 749 | 752. Pepin le Bref. | 737. also of Northumberland. | ||
| Abu-Jaáfar el-Mansûr | 136 | 754 | ||||
| (ʾAbd-er-Rahmân in Spain, A.H. 139.) | 768. Charlemagne and Carloman. | |||||
| el-Máhdy | 158 | 775 | Leo IV. | 771. Charlemagne alone |
