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Charles the Simple

879 - 929

Charles the Simple

Charles III (17 September 879 – 7 October 929), called the Simple or the Straightforward (from the Latin Carolus Simplex), was the king of West Francia from 898 until 922 and the king of Lotharingia from 911 until 919–923. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles the Simple has received more than 1,401,874 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Charles the Simple is the 545th most popular politician (up from 611th in 2019), the 234th most popular biography from France (up from 254th in 2019) and the 59th most popular French Politician.

Charles the Simple is most famous for signing the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, which divided France into two parts.

Memorability Metrics

1.4M
Page Views (PV)
72.86
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
60
Languages Editions (L)
8.95
Effective Languages (L*)
3.28
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Charles the Simples by language

Over the past year Charles the Simple has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 161,666 views, followed by French (74,016), and German (30,743). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (91.91%), Wu Chinese (90.86%), and Indonesian (59.50%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Charles the Simple ranks 545 out of 19,576. Before him are Nursultan Nazarbayev, Abd al-Rahman III, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Pertinax, Franz von Papen, and John II of France. After him are Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Abdulmejid II, Emperor Wu of Han, Elena Ceaușescu, George IV of the United Kingdom, and Nader Shah.

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Nursultan Nazarbayev
1940 - Present
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 539
Abd al-Rahman III
889 - 961
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 540
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
1830 - 1903
HPI: 72.89
Rank: 541
Pertinax
126 - 193
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 542
Franz von Papen
1879 - 1969
HPI: 72.87
Rank: 543
John II of France
1319 - 1364
HPI: 72.87
Rank: 544
Charles the Simple
879 - 929
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 545
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
1619 - 1683
HPI: 72.85
Rank: 546
Abdulmejid II
1868 - 1944
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 547
Emperor Wu of Han
156 BC - 87 BC
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 548
Elena Ceaușescu
1916 - 1989
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 549
George IV of the United Kingdom
1762 - 1830
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 550
Nader Shah
1688 - 1747
HPI: 72.80
Rank: 551

Contemporaries

Among people born in 879, Charles the Simple ranks 1. Among people deceased in 929, Charles the Simple ranks 1. After him are Pope John X, Al-Battani, Pope Leo VI, Adalbert I of Ivrea, and Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders.