1506 - 1552
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, 1st Earl of Hertford, 1st Viscount Beauchamp (1500 – 22 January 1552), also known as Edward Semel, was an English nobleman and politician who served as Lord Protector of England from 1547 to 1549 during the minority of his nephew King Edward VI. He was the eldest surviving brother of Queen Jane Seymour, the third wife of King Henry VIII. Seymour grew rapidly in favour with Henry VIII following Jane's marriage to the king in 1536, and was subsequently made Earl of Hertford. On Henry's death in 1547, he was appointed protector by the Regency Council on the accession of the nine-year-old Edward VI. Rewarded with the title Duke of Somerset, Seymour became the effective ruler of England. Somerset continued Henry's military campaign against the Scots and achieved a sound victory at the Battle of Pinkie, but ultimately he was unable to maintain his position in Scotland. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset has received more than 1,689,858 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset is the 4,817th most popular politician (up from 5,123rd in 2019), the 1,026th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,137th in 2019) and the 175th most popular British Politician.
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Among politicians, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset ranks 4,817 out of 15,577. Before him are Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, Choe Yong-rim, Nicu Ceaușescu, Karl Nesselrode, Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, and Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia. After him are Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Gyula Andrássy the Younger, Vologases V, Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, and Slavko Kvaternik.
1612 - 1646
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 4,811
1930 - Present
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 4,812
1951 - 1996
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 4,813
1780 - 1862
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 4,814
1828 - 1885
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 4,815
1859 - 1919
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 4,816
1506 - 1552
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 4,817
1654 - 1730
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 4,818
1860 - 1929
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 4,819
130 - 208
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 4,820
1796 - 1881
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 4,821
1538 - 1587
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 4,822
1878 - 1947
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 4,823
Among people born in 1506, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset ranks 4. Before him are Francis Xavier, Louis II of Hungary, and Hwang Jini. After him are Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, Peter Faber, Juliana of Stolberg, Luís of Portugal, Duke of Beja, and George Buchanan. Among people deceased in 1552, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset ranks 7. Before him are Francis Xavier, Katharina von Bora, Basil Fool for Christ, Petrus Apianus, Paolo Giovio, and Sebastian Münster. After him are Andreas Osiander, Olaus Petri, Antonio de Mendoza, Guru Angad, Pierre Attaingnant, and Qiu Ying.
1506 - 1552
HPI: 76.39
Rank: 1
1506 - 1526
HPI: 74.59
Rank: 2
1506 - 1544
HPI: 62.91
Rank: 3
1506 - 1552
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 4
1506 - 1543
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 5
1506 - 1545
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 6
1506 - 1580
HPI: 54.40
Rank: 7
1506 - 1555
HPI: 53.72
Rank: 8
1506 - 1582
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 9
1506 - 1552
HPI: 76.39
Rank: 1
1498 - 1552
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 2
1468 - 1552
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 3
1495 - 1552
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 4
1483 - 1552
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 5
1488 - 1552
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 6
1506 - 1552
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 7
1498 - 1552
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 8
1493 - 1552
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 9
1494 - 1552
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 10
1504 - 1552
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 11
1494 - 1552
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 12
1494 - 1552
HPI: 50.69
Rank: 13
Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset ranks 1,026 out of 7,765. Before him are Gary Brooker (1945), John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792), Lord Randolph Churchill (1849), J. Michael Kosterlitz (1943), Cynthia Lennon (1939), and Samuel Bellamy (1689). After him are Colin McRae (1968), Peter Mansfield (1933), William Whewell (1794), Edith Cavell (1865), Henry Briggs (1561), and Charles Lightoller (1874).
1945 - 2022
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 1,020
1792 - 1878
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 1,021
1849 - 1895
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 1,022
1943 - Present
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 1,023
1939 - 2015
HPI: 58.87
Rank: 1,024
1689 - 1717
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 1,025
1506 - 1552
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 1,026
1968 - 2007
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 1,027
1933 - 2017
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 1,028
1794 - 1866
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 1,029
1865 - 1915
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 1,030
1561 - 1630
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 1,031
1874 - 1952
HPI: 58.82
Rank: 1,032
Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset ranks 175. Before him are Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin (1914), Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (1477), Warren Hastings (1732), Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (1156), John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792), and Lord Randolph Churchill (1849). After him are Alexander II of Scotland (1198), Æthelbald, King of Wessex (831), Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900), James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1812), John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718), and Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia (1945).
1914 - 1999
HPI: 59.22
Rank: 169
1477 - 1539
HPI: 59.19
Rank: 170
1732 - 1818
HPI: 59.13
Rank: 171
1156 - 1189
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 172
1792 - 1878
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 173
1849 - 1895
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 174
1506 - 1552
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 175
1198 - 1249
HPI: 58.81
Rank: 176
831 - 860
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 177
1900 - 1974
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 178
1812 - 1860
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 179
1718 - 1792
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 180
1945 - Present
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 181