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George of Poděbrady

1420 - 1471

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George of Kunštát and Poděbrady (23 April 1420 – 22 March 1471), also known as Poděbrad or Podiebrad (Czech: Jiří z Poděbrad; German: Georg von Podiebrad), was the sixteenth King of Bohemia, who ruled in 1458–1471. He was a leader of the Hussites, but moderate and tolerant toward the Catholic faith. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George of Poděbrady has received more than 280,346 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). George of Poděbrady is the 1,769th most popular politician (up from 1,978th in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 64th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Czech Politician.

George of Poděbrady was the king of Bohemia and the last member of the Přemyslid dynasty. He was a great patron of the arts and sciences, and a champion of the Catholic Church.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, George of Poděbrady ranks 1,769 out of 19,576. Before him are Rama I, Yoweri Museveni, Nelson Rockefeller, Herman Van Rompuy, Edward, King of Portugal, and James II of Aragon. After him are King Zhuangxiang of Qin, Léon Blum, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Attalus I, Félix Faure, and John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1420, George of Poděbrady ranks 4. Before him are Tomás de Torquemada, Jean Fouquet, and Benozzo Gozzoli. After him are Andrea del Castagno, Abdal-Latif Mirza, Sesshū Tōyō, João Vaz Corte-Real, Agostino Barbarigo, Mahmud Pasha Angelović, Barthélemy d'Eyck, and Margaret of Savoy, Duchess of Anjou. Among people deceased in 1471, George of Poděbrady ranks 4. Before him are Henry VI of England, Pope Paul II, and Thomas à Kempis. After him are Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy, Thomas Malory, João Gonçalves Zarco, Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg, Emperor Go-Hanazono, and Otto V, Duke of Brunswick.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, George of Poděbrady ranks 60 out of 1,200. Before him are Emil Hácha (1872), Milena Jesenská (1896), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Peter Grünberg (1939), Anton Raphael Mengs (1728), and Karl Renner (1870). After him are Ludmila of Bohemia (860), Franz Werfel (1890), Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787), Jan Masaryk (1886), Jaroslav Seifert (1901), and Jerome of Prague (1379).

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Among POLITICIANS In Czechia

Among politicians born in Czechia, George of Poděbrady ranks 14. Before him are Klement Gottwald (1896), Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (1289), Ludvík Svoboda (1895), Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (1271), Emil Hácha (1872), and Karl Renner (1870). After him are Jan Masaryk (1886), Karl Hermann Frank (1898), Karel Schwarzenberg (1937), Bonne of Luxembourg (1315), Wenceslaus I of Bohemia (1205), and Ottokar I of Bohemia (1155).

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