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John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury

1384 - 1453

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John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, 1st Earl of Waterford, 7th Baron Talbot, KG (c. 1387 – 17 July 1453), known as "Old Talbot", was an English nobleman and a noted military commander during the Hundred Years' War. He was the most renowned in England and most feared in France of the English captains in the last stages of the conflict. Known as a tough, cruel, and quarrelsome man, Talbot distinguished himself militarily in a time of decline for the English. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury has received more than 500,973 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury is the 7,026th most popular politician (down from 5,922nd in 2019), the 1,383rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,255th in 2019) and the 230th most popular British Politician.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury ranks 7,026 out of 19,576. Before him are Emperor Go-Murakami, William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester, Kamehameha II, John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, and Conrad I, Duke of Bohemia. After him are Shangguan Wan'er, Fortún Garcés of Pamplona, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Giorgi Saakadze, Emperor An of Jin, and Nikos Sampson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1384, John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury ranks 6. Before him are Frances of Rome, Yolande of Aragon, Khalil Sultan, Anthony, Duke of Brabant, and Lê Lợi.  Among people deceased in 1453, John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury ranks 7. Before him are Constantine XI Palaiologos, Giovanni Giustiniani, Çandarlı Halil Pasha the Younger, John Dunstaple, Loukas Notaras, and Sophia of Lithuania. After him are Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine, Orban, Sidi Boushaki, Álvaro de Luna, 1st Duke of Trujillo, Jacob, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and Sayf al-Din Jaqmaq.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury ranks 1,383 out of 8,785. Before him are Guy Pearce (1967), Steven Berkoff (1937), W. T. Stead (1849), John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (1404), John Newton (1725), and Williamina Fleming (1857). After him are Beau Brummell (1778), Peter Mansfield (1933), John Bowring (1792), Hannah Chaplin (1865), Peter Mayhew (1944), and Adrian Newey (1958).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury ranks 230. Before him are George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784), Jeremy Corbyn (1949), Reginald Johnston (1874), Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810), Penda of Mercia (606), and John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (1404). After him are John Bowring (1792), Herbert Pitman (1877), Constantine II of Scotland (801), Prince William, Duke of Cumberland (1721), Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799), and Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (1673).

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