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Gilles de Rais

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Gilles de Rais (French pronunciation: [ʒil də ʁɛ]; c. 1405 – 26 October 1440), Baron de Rais, was a knight and lord from Brittany, Anjou and Poitou, a leader in the French army during the Hundred Years' War, and a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gilles de Rais has received more than 4,262,750 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Gilles de Rais is the 11th most popular extremist, the 281st most popular biography from France (down from 236th in 2019) and the most popular French Extremist.

Gilles de Rais is most famous for being a French nobleman who was accused of kidnapping, torturing, and murdering hundreds of children in the 15th century.

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  • 4.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Gilles de Rais ranks 11 out of 283. Before him are Osama bin Laden, Gavrilo Princip, Elizabeth Báthory, Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, and Herostratus. After him are Man in the Iron Mask, Abdullah Öcalan, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Ramón Mercader, and Andrei Chikatilo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1405, Gilles de Rais ranks 3. Before him are Skanderbeg, and Pope Pius II. After him are John II of Castile, Thomas Malory, Ulugh Muhammad, Sophia of Halshany, Maria of Trebizond, and Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers. Among people deceased in 1440, Gilles de Rais ranks 1. After him are Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg, Frances of Rome, Sigismund Kęstutaitis, Cennino Cennini, Itzcoatl, Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg, and Irene Gattilusio.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gilles de Rais ranks 281 out of 6,770. Before him are Francis Picabia (1879), Vincent de Paul (1581), Prosper Mérimée (1803), Philip the Good (1396), Paul Signac (1863), and Charlotte Corday (1768). After him are Baldwin I of Jerusalem (1058), Frédéric Mistral (1830), Désirée Clary (1777), Pope Sylvester II (938), Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738), and Francis de Sales (1567).

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Among EXTREMISTS In France

Among extremists born in France, Gilles de Rais ranks 1. After him are Madame de Brinvilliers (1630), Michel Fourniret (1942), Henri Désiré Landru (1869), Jean II, Duke of Alençon (1409), Robert-François Damiens (1715), Jacques Mesrine (1936), Édouard Vaillant (1840), Yvan Colonna (1960), and Zacarias Moussaoui (1968).

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