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Louis XII of France

1462 - 1515

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Louis XII (27 June 1462 – 1 January 1515) was King of France from 1498 to 1515 and King of Naples from 1501 to 1504. The son of Charles, Duke of Orléans, and Marie of Cleves, he succeeded his second cousin once removed and brother-in-law, Charles VIII, who died childless in 1498. Before his accession to the throne of France, he was known as Louis of Orléans and was compelled to be married to his disabled and supposedly sterile cousin Joan by his second cousin, King Louis XI. By doing so, Louis XI hoped to extinguish the Orléans cadet branch of the House of Valois. When Louis XII became king in 1498, he had his marriage with Joan annulled by Pope Alexander VI and instead married Anne, Duchess of Brittany, the widow of Charles VIII. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis XII of France has received more than 2,165,771 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2019). Louis XII of France is the 312th most popular politician (up from 322nd in 2019), the 127th most popular biography from France (up from 135th in 2019) and the 36th most popular French Politician.

Louis XII was most famous for being the king of France who ruled from 1498 to 1515. He was a member of the House of Valois and succeeded his father Charles VIII.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 75.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 75

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Louis XII of Frances by language

Over the past year Louis XII of France has had the most page views in the with 226,451 views, followed by English (199,519), and Spanish (68,488). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Mongolian (994.12%), Uzbek (108.65%), and West Frisian (70.13%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Louis XII of France ranks 312 out of 19,576. Before him are Ahmed II, Helmut Kohl, Alfred the Great, George VI, Beatrix of the Netherlands, and Gerald Ford. After him are Croesus, Djoser, Alexander Dubček, Turhan Hatice Sultan, Vyacheslav Molotov, and Ivar the Boneless.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1462, Louis XII of France ranks 1. After him are Piero di Cosimo, Joanna la Beltraneja, Pietro Pomponazzi, Johannes Trithemius, Mihnea cel Rău, Pietro Lando, Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Edzard I, Count of East Frisia, and John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln. Among people deceased in 1515, Louis XII of France ranks 1. After him are Afonso de Albuquerque, Aldus Manutius, Meñli I Giray, Alonso de Ojeda, Bartholomew Columbus, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Mariotto Albertinelli, Abraham Zacuto, Barbara Zápolya, Barbara of Brandenburg, and Pietro Lombardo.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis XII of France ranks 127 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Cocteau (1889), Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708), Guy de Maupassant (1850), Hugh Capet (940), Charles VI of France (1368), and Thérèse of Lisieux (1873). After him are Henri Poincaré (1854), Saint Sebastian (300), Joseph Fourier (1768), Catherine Deneuve (1943), Paul Verlaine (1844), and Albert Schweitzer (1875).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Louis XII of France ranks 36. Before him are Philippe Pétain (1856), Charles VII of France (1403), Charles VIII of France (1470), Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708), Hugh Capet (940), and Charles VI of France (1368). After him are Charles V of France (1338), Joachim Murat (1767), Louis XVIII of France (1755), Godfrey of Bouillon (1060), François Hollande (1954), and Charles IX of France (1550).

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