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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, (15 June 1519 – 23 July 1536), was the son of King Henry VIII of England and his mistress, Elizabeth Blount, and the only child born out of wedlock whom Henry VIII acknowledged. He was the younger half-brother of Queen Mary I, as well as the older half-brother of Queen Elizabeth I and King Edward VI. Through his mother, he was the elder half-brother of the 4th Baroness Tailboys of Kyme and of the 2nd and 3rd Barons Tailboys of Kyme. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset has received more than 1,950,440 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset is the 3,270th most popular politician (up from 4,349th in 2019), the 734th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 980th in 2019) and the 135th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset ranks 3,270 out of 15,577. Before him are Thorismund, Augustin Robespierre, Ladislaus III of Hungary, L'Inconnue de la Seine, Publius Cornelius Dolabella, and Charles Felix of Sardinia. After him are Wilfred the Hairy, Intef II, Ranavalona III, Otto Bauer, Leopold V, Archduke of Austria, and Arnold Rüütel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1519, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset ranks 10. Before him are Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Gaspard II de Coligny, Francis, Duke of Guise, Occhiali, Isabella Jagiellon, and Theodore Beza. After him are Imagawa Yoshimoto, Antonis Mor, Andrea Cesalpino, Thomas Gresham, Frans Floris, and Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. Among people deceased in 1536, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset ranks 9. Before him are Catherine of Aragon, Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, William Tyndale, Germaine of Foix, Baldassare Peruzzi, and Francis III, Duke of Brittany. After him are Garcilaso de la Vega, Cecilia Gallerani, John of Leiden, George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford, Gil Vicente, and Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset ranks 734 out of 7,765. Before him are James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (1534), Robert III of Scotland (1330), Godfrey Hounsfield (1919), Gordon Brown (1951), Benedict Cumberbatch (1976), and H. L. A. Hart (1907). After him are Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765), Samuel Richardson (1689), Catherine of Lancaster (1373), Arthur Cayley (1821), Pat Hitchcock (1928), and Frederick Griffith (1879).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset ranks 135. Before him are Norman Angell (1872), Margaret of York (1446), John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (1924), James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (1534), Robert III of Scotland (1330), and Gordon Brown (1951). After him are Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443), Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (1430), John Balliol (1249), James Macpherson (1736), Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902), and Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850).

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