NOBLEMAN

John III, Duke of Cleves

1490 - 1539

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John III, Duke of Cleves and Count of Mark (German: Johann III der Friedfertige; 10 November 1490 – 6 February 1539), known as John the Peaceful, was the Lord of Ravensberg, Count of Mark, and founder of the United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John III, Duke of Cleves has received more than 272,562 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). John III, Duke of Cleves is the 496th most popular nobleman (down from 492nd in 2019), the 2,023rd most popular biography from Germany and the 84th most popular German Nobleman.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

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Over the past year John III, Duke of Cleves has had the most page views in the with 44,413 views, followed by German (7,080), and Russian (4,519). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Bulgarian (52.08%), Hungarian (41.19%), and Greek (34.72%)

Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, John III, Duke of Cleves ranks 496 out of 1,415Before him are Laodice III, Violante Beatrice of Bavaria, Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma, Constantin Brâncoveanu, Charles, Prince of Soubise, and Margaret, Maid of Norway. After him are Isabella, Countess of Vertus, Godfrey I, Count of Louvain, Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste Sofie of Neuburg, Louis I, Count of Blois, Leopoldo de' Medici, and Peter I, Count of Savoy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1490, John III, Duke of Cleves ranks 14Before him are Albert of Brandenburg, Florian Geyer, Ebussuud Efendi, Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, and Françoise d'Alençon. After him are Marinus van Reymerswaele, Properzia de' Rossi, Galvarino, Nikola Jurišić, Mohammed al-Shaykh, and Caspar Schwenckfeld. Among people deceased in 1539, John III, Duke of Cleves ranks 9Before him are Isabella d'Este, Ayas Mehmed Pasha, Ferdinand Columbus, George, Duke of Saxony, Anthony Maria Zaccaria, and Ayşe Hatun. After him are Pierre Gringore, Elizabeth Blount, Ottaviano Petrucci, Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, Il Pordenone, and Vannoccio Biringuccio.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, John III, Duke of Cleves ranks 2,023 out of 7,253Before him are Walter Schröder (1932), Augustin Bea (1881), Karl Frenzel (1911), John Sutter (1803), Eugen Weidmann (1908), and Paul Troost (1878). After him are William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1532), Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), Henry XVI, Duke of Bavaria (1386), Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1778), Wilhelm Ackermann (1896), and Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758).

Among NOBLEMEN In Germany

Among noblemen born in Germany, John III, Duke of Cleves ranks 84Before him are Joanna Sophia of Bavaria (1373), Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg (1821), Berthold, Duke of Merania (1153), Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach (1721), John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg (1625), and Violante Beatrice of Bavaria (1673). After him are Frederick August I, Duke of Oldenburg (1711), Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1688), Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg (1588), Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg (1619), Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau (1837), and Magdalene of Bavaria (1587).