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Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

1316 - 1378

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Charles IV (Czech: Karel IV.; German: Karl IV.; Latin: Carolus IV; 14 May 1316 – 29 November 1378), also known as Charles of Luxembourg, born Wenceslaus (Czech: Václav, German: Wenzel), was Holy Roman Emperor from 1355 until his death in 1378. He was elected King of Germany (King of the Romans) in 1346 and became King of Bohemia (as Charles I) that same year. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor has received more than 2,106,175 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor is the 258th most popular politician (up from 353rd in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Czechia and the most popular Czech Politician.

Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, is most famous for being the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1355-1378. He was the son of Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV and Beatrice of Sicily. Charles IV became Holy Roman Emperor when his father died in 1347. He was the last Holy Roman Emperor to be crowned in Rome.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor ranks 258 out of 19,576. Before him are Marcus Licinius Crassus, François Mitterrand, Antoninus Pius, Philip II of France, Rudolf Hess, and Rodrigo Duterte. After him are Jawaharlal Nehru, Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, Safiye Sultan, Ashurbanipal, Philip V of Spain, and Henry II of France.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1316, Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor ranks 1. After him are John I of France, Magnus IV of Sweden, Robert II of Scotland, Simeon of Moscow, Choe Yeong, Fa Ngum, Süleyman Pasha, Blanche of Valois, Albert of Saxony, John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, and John Barbour. Among people deceased in 1378, Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor ranks 1. After him are Pope Gregory XI, Joanna of Bourbon, Biligtü Khan Ayushiridara, Galeazzo II Visconti, and Alexius, Metropolitan of Kiev.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor ranks 13 out of 1,200. Before him are John Amos Comenius (1592), Milan Kundera (1929), Václav Havel (1936), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Oskar Schindler (1908), and Bedřich Smetana (1824). After him are Edmund Husserl (1859), Jan Žižka (1360), Alphonse Mucha (1860), Ferdinand Porsche (1875), John of Nepomuk (1350), and Karel Čapek (1890).

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Among POLITICIANS In Czechia

Among politicians born in Czechia, Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor ranks 1. After him are Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850), Edvard Beneš (1884), Václav Klaus (1941), Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892), Ottokar II of Bohemia (1233), Miloš Zeman (1944), Klement Gottwald (1896), Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (1289), Ludvík Svoboda (1895), Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (1271), and Emil Hácha (1872).

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