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Christopher Báthory

1530 - 1581

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Christopher Báthory (Hungarian: Báthory Kristóf; 1530 – 27 May 1581) was voivode of Transylvania from 1576 to 1581. He was a younger son of Stephen Báthory of Somlyó. Christopher's career began during the reign of Queen Isabella Jagiellon, who administered the eastern territories of the Kingdom of Hungary on behalf of her son, John Sigismund Zápolya, from 1556 to 1559. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christopher Báthory has received more than 47,639 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Christopher Báthory is the 5,766th most popular politician (down from 5,725th in 2019), the 101st most popular biography from Romania (up from 102nd in 2019) and the 45th most popular Romanian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Christopher Báthory ranks 5,766 out of 19,576Before him are Everard des Barres, Zhao Feiyan, Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg, Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Garibald I of Bavaria, and Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. After him are Şehzade Korkut, Princess Josephine of Baden, Rashad al-Alimi, Hamida Djandoubi, Luis Corvalán, and Christina Magdalena of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1530, Christopher Báthory ranks 12Before him are Jean Nicot, Ruy López de Segura, Anastasia Romanovna, Louis, Prince of Condé, Jan Kochanowski, and Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. After him are Juan de Herrera, Starina Novak, Giambattista Benedetti, Kuyucu Murad Pasha, Symon Budny, and Ōtomo Sōrin. Among people deceased in 1581, Christopher Báthory ranks 5Before him are Mahidevran, Bayinnaung, Guru Ram Das, and Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia. After him are Maria of Austria, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Guillaume Postel, Duchess Sabine of Württemberg, Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Louis Bertrand, Honoré I, Lord of Monaco, and Edmund Campion.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Christopher Báthory ranks 101 out of 844Before him are László Bölöni (1953), Rezső Kasztner (1906), Farkas Bolyai (1775), Ben Ferencz (1920), Aureolus (220), and Ion Gheorghe Maurer (1902). After him are Ion Luca Caragiale (1852), Mundzuk (368), Prince Nicholas of Romania (1903), Marcel Janco (1895), Andrew Báthory (1563), and Serge Klarsfeld (1935).

Among POLITICIANS In Romania

Among politicians born in Romania, Christopher Báthory ranks 45Before him are Pertevniyal Sultan (1812), Horia Sima (1907), Rezső Kasztner (1906), Ben Ferencz (1920), Aureolus (220), and Ion Gheorghe Maurer (1902). After him are Mundzuk (368), Andrew Báthory (1563), Petru Rareș (1487), László Tőkés (1952), Tudor Vladimirescu (1780), and Petre Roman (1946).