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Alexander Jagiellon

1461 - 1506

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Alexander Jagiellon (Polish: Aleksander Jagiellończyk; Lithuanian: Aleksandras Jogailaitis; 5 August 1461 – 19 August 1506) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1492 and King of Poland from 1501 until his death in 1506. He was the fourth son of Casimir IV and a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Jagiellon has received more than 259,246 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Alexander Jagiellon is the 1,902nd most popular politician (up from 2,121st in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from Poland (up from 120th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Polish Politician.

Alexander Jagiellon was the king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1506 until his death in 1548. He ruled the largest Polish-Lithuanian state in the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Alexander Jagiellon ranks 1,902 out of 19,576. Before him are Eric VI of Denmark, John V of Portugal, Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, Agathocles of Syracuse, Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, and Abdurrahman Wahid. After him are Al-Adil I, Alfonso VIII of Castile, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Zhengde Emperor, Tomoe Gozen, and Babrak Karmal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1461, Alexander Jagiellon ranks 1. After him are Anne of France, Christina of Saxony, and Raffaele Riario. Among people deceased in 1506, Alexander Jagiellon ranks 5. Before him are Christopher Columbus, Andrea Mantegna, Philip I of Castile, and Yeonsangun of Joseon. After him are Anne of Foix-Candale, Sultan Husayn Bayqara, Sesshū Tōyō, Alexander Agricola, Beatriz, Duchess of Viseu, Sancha of Aragon, and João I of Kongo.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Alexander Jagiellon ranks 110 out of 1,694. Before him are Mieszko I of Poland (940), Maria Feodorovna (1759), Leopold Kronecker (1823), Hanna Reitsch (1912), Zdzisław Beksiński (1929), and Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899). After him are Fred Zinnemann (1907), Jarosław Kaczyński (1949), Władysław Reymont (1867), Osip Mandelstam (1891), Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (1895), and Alfred von Tirpitz (1849).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Alexander Jagiellon ranks 26. Before him are Casimir IV Jagiellon (1427), Catherine Jagiellon (1526), Egon Krenz (1937), Horst Köhler (1943), Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858), and Mieszko I of Poland (940). After him are Jarosław Kaczyński (1949), Karl Hanke (1903), Kurt Daluege (1897), Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg (1767), Alexandre Colonna-Walewski (1810), and Władysław I the Elbow-high (1260).

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