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Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset

1519 - 1536

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Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset (c. 15 June 1519 – 23 July 1536) was the son of Henry VIII of England and his mistress Elizabeth Blount, and the only child born out of wedlock whom Henry acknowledged. He was the younger half-brother of Mary I, as well as the older half-brother of Elizabeth I and Edward VI. Through his mother, he was the elder half-brother of Elizabeth, George, and Robert Tailboys. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset has received more than 2,090,588 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset is the 3,701st most popular politician (down from 3,223rd in 2019), the 775th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 734th in 2019) and the 130th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset ranks 3,701 out of 19,576. Before him are Ahmad al-Mansur, Eric XI of Sweden, Emperor Buretsu, Zwentibold, John George, Elector of Brandenburg, and Augustus, Elector of Saxony. After him are Philippe, Chevalier de Lorraine, Roza Otunbayeva, Maria Theresa of Austria, Giovanni Leone, Heng Samrin, and Charles I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1519, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset ranks 11. Before him are Gaspard II de Coligny, Francis, Duke of Guise, Theodore Beza, Isabella Jagiellon, Occhiali, and Imagawa Yoshimoto. After him are Andrea Cesalpino, Antonis Mor, Thomas Gresham, Frans Floris, Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, and Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. Among people deceased in 1536, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset ranks 8. Before him are Anne Boleyn, Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, Catherine of Aragon, Baldassare Peruzzi, Germaine of Foix, and William Tyndale. After him are Francis III, Duke of Brittany, Garcilaso de la Vega, John of Leiden, Cecilia Gallerani, George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford, and Gil Vicente.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset ranks 775 out of 8,785. Before him are Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (1473), Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853), Rachel Weisz (1970), Ian McDiarmid (1944), Clementine Churchill (1885), and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881). After him are Jean Simmons (1929), Richard Wilson (1936), Ken Hensley (1945), Julie Walters (1950), Thomas De Quincey (1785), and John Gielgud (1904).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset ranks 130. Before him are James Macpherson (1736), H. H. Asquith (1852), Margaret of York (1446), Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (1473), Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853), and Clementine Churchill (1885). After him are Malcolm III of Scotland (1031), Robert Peel (1788), Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473), William Ewart Gladstone (1809), David Cameron (1966), and Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (1158).

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