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Cardinal Richelieu

1585 - 1642

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Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu (French: [aʁmɑ̃ ʒɑ̃ dy plɛsi]; 9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French Catholic prelate and statesman who had an outsize influence in civil and religious affairs. He became known as l'Éminence Rouge (English: "the Red Eminence"), a term derived from the title "Eminence" applied to cardinals and their customary red robes. Consecrated a bishop in 1607, Richelieu was appointed Foreign Secretary in 1616. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cardinal Richelieu has received more than 3,699,614 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Cardinal Richelieu is the 163rd most popular politician (down from 149th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from France (up from 65th in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Politician.

Cardinal Richelieu was a French clergyman and politician who served as the chief minister of France from 1624 to 1642. He is best known for his role in the Thirty Years' War.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Cardinal Richelieu ranks 163 out of 19,576. Before him are Deng Xiaoping, Mustafa I, Orhan, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, and Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire. After him are Mehmed IV, Francis I of France, Vespasian, Claudius, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1585, Cardinal Richelieu ranks 1. After him are Heinrich Schütz, Cornelius Jansen, Hendrick Avercamp, John George I, Elector of Saxony, Uriel da Costa, Anna of Tyrol, Jacob Le Maire, Lucilio Vanini, Zacharias Janssen, John Rolfe, and Jacques Lemercier. Among people deceased in 1642, Cardinal Richelieu ranks 2. Before him is Galileo Galilei. After him are Marie de' Medici, Guido Reni, Saskia van Uylenburgh, Safi of Persia, Dmitry Pozharsky, Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, Pieter van Laer, Friedrich Kettler, Frans Francken the Younger, and Sophia Hedwig of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Cardinal Richelieu ranks 57 out of 6,770. Before him are Madame de Pompadour (1721), Henri Becquerel (1852), Georges Bizet (1838), André-Marie Ampère (1775), Romain Rolland (1866), and Gustave Eiffel (1832). After him are Charles Perrault (1628), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Sarah Bernhardt (1844), Francis I of France (1494), Claudius (-10), and Arthur Rimbaud (1854).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Cardinal Richelieu ranks 12. Before him are Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807), Napoleon III (1808), Henry IV of France (1553), Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (1122), Louis XIII of France (1601), and Philip IV of France (1268). After him are Francis I of France (1494), Claudius (-10), Louis Philippe I (1773), Charles X of France (1757), Maximilien Robespierre (1758), and Louis the Pious (778).

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