POLITICIAN

Margaret of Anjou

1430 - 1482

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Margaret of Anjou (French: Marguerite; 23 March 1430 – 25 August 1482) was Queen of England by marriage to King Henry VI from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471. Through marriage, she was also nominally Queen of France from 1445 to 1453. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret of Anjou has received more than 3,141,993 page views. Her biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Margaret of Anjou is the 1,687th most popular politician (down from 1,130th in 2019), the 591st most popular biography from France (down from 404th in 2019) and the 138th most popular French Politician.

Margaret of Anjou is most famous for being the wife of Henry VI of England and the mother of Edward IV and Richard III.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Margaret of Anjou ranks 1,687 out of 19,576Before her are Shennong, Kurt Schuschnigg, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Zhao Ziyang, Friedrich Fromm, and Nahum. After her are Tancred, Prince of Galilee, Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem, Vojislav Koštunica, Jehoash of Judah, Cuauhtémoc, and Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1430, Margaret of Anjou ranks 3Before her are Giovanni Bellini, and Antonello da Messina. After her are Carlo Crivelli, James II of Scotland, Cosimo Tura, Dorothea of Brandenburg, Heinrich Kramer, Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, Justus van Gent, Beatriz, Duchess of Viseu, and Francesco Laurana. Among people deceased in 1482, Margaret of Anjou ranks 3Before her are Mary of Burgundy, and Hugo van der Goes. After her are Luca della Robbia, Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Federico da Montefeltro, Philibert I, Duke of Savoy, Gedik Ahmed Pasha, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, William III, Landgrave of Thuringia, Louis of Cyprus, and Giovanni di Paolo.

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In France

Among people born in France, Margaret of Anjou ranks 591 out of 6,770Before her are Henri Barbusse (1873), René Lacoste (1904), Gérard de Nerval (1808), Joseph Proust (1754), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), and Roger Garaudy (1913). After her are Françoise Hardy (1944), Antipope Clement VII (1342), Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943), Lazare Carnot (1753), Anaïs Nin (1903), and Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (1712).

Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Margaret of Anjou ranks 138Before her are Yolande de Polastron (1749), Bernard Tapie (1943), René of Anjou (1409), Alaric II (458), Paul Bocuse (1926), and Francis, Duke of Guise (1519). After her are Lazare Carnot (1753), Salome Zourabichvili (1952), Fulk, King of Jerusalem (1092), Léon Blum (1872), Félix Faure (1841), and Charles II of Navarre (1332).