RELIGIOUS FIGURE

John of Nepomuk

1350 - 1393

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John of Nepomuk (or John Nepomucene) (Czech: Jan Nepomucký; German: Johannes Nepomuk; Latin: Ioannes Nepomucenus) (c. 1345 – 20 March 1393) was a saint of Bohemia (Czech Republic) who was drowned in the Vltava river at the behest of King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia. Later accounts state that he was the confessor of the queen of Bohemia and refused to divulge the secrets of the confessional. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John of Nepomuk has received more than 566,049 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). John of Nepomuk is the 205th most popular religious figure (up from 207th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Czechia and the most popular Czech Religious Figure.

John of Nepomuk is most famous for being a martyr who was thrown into the Vltava River and drowned.

Memorability Metrics

  • 570k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, John of Nepomuk ranks 205 out of 3,187. Before him are Pope Clement X, Pope Benedict XI, Pope Benedict VIII, Elizabeth of Hungary, Pope Boniface I, and Pope Celestine III. After him are Pope Innocent IX, Pope Gregory XI, Pope Sixtus II, Bridget of Sweden, Pope Gregory XIV, and Pope Innocent XII.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1350, John of Nepomuk ranks 2. Before him is Pope Boniface IX. After him are Malhun Hatun, Miloš Obilić, Manuel II Palaiologos, Dmitry Donskoy, Vincent Ferrer, Margaret III, Countess of Flanders, John I of Aragon, Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria, Pierre d'Ailly, and Urus Khan. Among people deceased in 1393, John of Nepomuk ranks 1. After him are Elizabeth of Pomerania, John I, Count of La Marche, Fa Ngum, Leo V, King of Armenia, Emperor Go-En'yū, Frederick, Duke of Bavaria, and Bagrat V of Georgia.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, John of Nepomuk ranks 18 out of 1,200. Before him are Bedřich Smetana (1824), Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), Edmund Husserl (1859), Jan Žižka (1360), Alphonse Mucha (1860), and Ferdinand Porsche (1875). After him are Karel Čapek (1890), Wilhelm Steinitz (1836), Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583), Kurt Gödel (1906), Joseph Schumpeter (1883), and Bertha von Suttner (1843).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Czechia

Among religious figures born in Czechia, John of Nepomuk ranks 1. After him are Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907), Adalbert of Prague (955), Ludmila of Bohemia (860), Agnes of Bohemia (1211), Clement Mary Hofbauer (1751), Dominik Duka (1943), Maria Restituta Kafka (1894), Anne of Bohemia, Duchess of Silesia (1204), Miloslav Vlk (1932), Zdislava Berka (1215), and Melchior Grodziecki (1584).

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