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Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

1510 - 1581

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Francis I of Saxe-Lauenburg (1510 – 19 March 1581, Buxtehude) was the eldest child and only son of Duke Magnus I of Saxe-Lauenburg and Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1488 – 29 July 1563, Neuhaus), daughter of Duke Henry IV the Elder of Brunswick and Lunenburg (Wolfenbüttel). Francis I succeeded his father in 1543 as duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, but resigned in favour of his major son Magnus II in 1571. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg has received more than 34,817 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg is the 10,101st most popular politician (up from 10,440th in 2019).

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg ranks 10,101 out of 19,576. Before him are Abdyl Frashëri, Otto III, Duke of Carinthia, Aleksandras Stulginskis, William II, Duke of Aquitaine, Tassilo I of Bavaria, and Pope Heraclas of Alexandria. After him are Prince Francis, Count of Trapani, Natalia Gutman, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Agnello Participazio, Iskandar Muda, and Ismail al-Azhari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1510, Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg ranks 29. Before him are Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, Tullia d'Aragona, Diego Ortiz, Andrea Schiavone, Ferenc Dávid, and Alonso Mudarra. After him are Teodósio I, Duke of Braganza, Simão Rodrigues, Bonaventure des Périers, Wan Hu, Martynas Mažvydas, and William Turner. Among people deceased in 1581, Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg ranks 9. Before him are Guru Ram Das, Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia, Christopher Báthory, Maria of Austria, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Guillaume Postel, and Duchess Sabine of Württemberg. After him are Louis Bertrand, Honoré I, Lord of Monaco, Edmund Campion, and Frans Pourbus the Elder.

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