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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 462,730 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury is the 5,937th most popular politician (up from 6,079th in 2019), the 1,259th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,321st in 2019) and the 210th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury ranks 5,937 out of 15,577. Before him are Leopold, Prince of Salerno, Diagoras of Rhodes, John II, Count of Holland, Hydatius, Cai Yong, and Ebroin. After him are Shapour Bakhtiar, Ferdinand, Prince of Asturias, Otto V, Duke of Bavaria, Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Matvei Zakharov, and Princess Margaret Yolande of Savoy.

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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 6. Before him are Constantine XI Palaiologos, Giovanni Giustiniani, Çandarlı Halil Pasha the Younger, John Dunstaple, and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine. After him are Orban, Sophia of Lithuania, Álvaro de Luna, 1st Duke of Trujillo, and Dmitry Shemyaka.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury ranks 1,259 out of 7,765. Before him are Gary Lineker (1960), David Thewlis (1963), Keith O'Brien (1938), Elizabeth de Burgh (1289), Mick Taylor (1949), and Wallace Hartley (1878). After him are Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813), Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick (1475), Alistair MacLean (1922), Charles Frederick Worth (1825), Thomas Reid (1710), and George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon (1827).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury ranks 210. Before him are Domnall mac Ailpín (812), Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810), Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874), Alexander I of Scotland (1078), Prince William, Duke of Cumberland (1721), and Horace Walpole (1717). After him are Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813), Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick (1475), George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon (1827), Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565), Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (1373), and Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (1935).

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