POLITICIAN

Barbara of Cilli

1392 - 1451

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Barbara of Cilli or Barbara of Celje (Hungarian: Cillei Borbála, German: Barbara von Cilli, Slovenian and Croatian: Barbara Celjska, 1392 – 11 July 1451), was the Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia by marriage to Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund. She was actively involved in politics and economy of her times, independently administering large feudal fiefdoms and taxes, and was instrumental in creating the famous royal Order of the Dragon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barbara of Cilli has received more than 184,236 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Barbara of Cilli is the 857th most popular politician (up from 873rd in 2019), the most popular biography from Slovenia (up from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Slovene Politician.

Barbara of Cilli was the wife of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. She is most famous for her marriage to Charles IV, and for being the mother of Wenceslaus IV, the last Holy Roman Emperor.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Barbara of Cilli ranks 857 out of 19,576Before her are George II of Greece, Amadeo I of Spain, Antigonus I Monophthalmus, Jalal Talabani, Gordian III, and Gwangjong of Goryeo. After her are Rudolf I of Germany, William III of England, Diane de Poitiers, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, Julius Nepos, and Kliment Voroshilov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1392, Barbara of Cilli ranks 1After her are John VIII Palaiologos, Filippo Maria Visconti, Stefano di Giovanni, Peter, Duke of Coimbra, Mark of Ephesus, William the Victorious, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Pasquale Malipiero, Alain Chartier, Blanche of England, and Beatrice of Navarre, Countess of La Marche. Among people deceased in 1451, Barbara of Cilli ranks 2Before her is Murad II. After her are Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy, Stefan Lochner, Elizabeth of Görlitz, Abdullah Mirza, and Gonzalo Pérez.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, Barbara of Cilli ranks 1 out of 340After her are Giuseppe Tartini (1692), France Prešeren (1800), Slavoj Žižek (1949), Jože Plečnik (1872), Hugo Wolf (1860), Santorio Santorio (1561), Milan Kučan (1941), Antonio Abetti (1846), Hemma of Gurk (980), Edvard Kardelj (1910), and Franz Miklosich (1813).

Among POLITICIANS In Slovenia

Among politicians born in Slovenia, Barbara of Cilli ranks 1After her are Milan Kučan (1941), Edvard Kardelj (1910), Janez Drnovšek (1950), Aleksander Čeferin (1967), Hermann II, Count of Celje (1361), Arkan (1952), Janez Janša (1958), Borut Pahor (1963), Danilo Türk (1952), Anton Korošec (1872), and Robert Golob (1967).