1522 - 1586
Margaret of Parma (Italian: Margherita di Parma; 5 July 1522 – 18 January 1586) was Governor of the Netherlands from 1559 to 1567 and from 1578 to 1582. She was the illegitimate daughter of the then 22-year-old Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Johanna Maria van der Gheynst. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret of Parma has received more than 232,836 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret of Parma is the 1,157th most popular politician (down from 1,024th in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 45th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Belgian Politician.
Margaret of Parma was the daughter of Emperor Charles V and the sister of King Philip II of Spain. She was the governor of the Netherlands from 1559 to 1567, and she is most famous for her attempts to suppress the Protestant Reformation in the Netherlands.
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Among politicians, Margaret of Parma ranks 1,157 out of 15,710. Before her are Ahmed Ben Bella, Cyrus the Younger, Stephen III of Moldavia, Alfredo Stroessner, Şehzade Cihangir, and Juan Antonio Samaranch. After her are Louis, Dauphin of France, Yitzhak Shamir, Andrei Zhdanov, Cnut the Great, Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, and Martti Ahtisaari.
1916 - 2012
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 1,151
500 BC - 401 BC
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 1,152
1433 - 1504
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 1,153
1912 - 2006
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 1,154
1531 - 1553
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 1,155
1920 - 2010
HPI: 75.76
Rank: 1,156
1522 - 1586
HPI: 75.76
Rank: 1,157
1729 - 1765
HPI: 75.75
Rank: 1,158
1915 - 2012
HPI: 75.75
Rank: 1,159
1896 - 1948
HPI: 75.74
Rank: 1,160
995 - 1035
HPI: 75.74
Rank: 1,161
1463 - 1525
HPI: 75.74
Rank: 1,162
1937 - Present
HPI: 75.73
Rank: 1,163
Among people born in 1522, Margaret of Parma ranks 3. Before her are Mihrimah Sultan and Şehzade Mehmed. After her are Lodovico Ferrari, Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Eleanor of Toledo, Sen no Rikyū, Ulisse Aldrovandi, Joachim du Bellay, Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, and Charles II de Valois, Duke of Orléans. Among people deceased in 1586, Margaret of Parma ranks 2. Before her is Stephen Báthory. After her are Lucas Cranach the Younger, Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma, Augustus, Elector of Saxony, Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Primož Trubar, Philip Sidney, Birbal, Luis de Morales, and Ignazio Danti.
1522 - 1578
HPI: 81.22
Rank: 1
1522 - 1543
HPI: 77.65
Rank: 2
1522 - 1586
HPI: 75.76
Rank: 3
1522 - 1565
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 4
1522 - 1568
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 5
1522 - 1562
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 6
1522 - 1591
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 7
1522 - 1605
HPI: 70.29
Rank: 8
1522 - 1560
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 9
1522 - 1570
HPI: 66.63
Rank: 10
1522 - 1592
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 11
1522 - 1545
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 12
1533 - 1586
HPI: 79.50
Rank: 1
1522 - 1586
HPI: 75.76
Rank: 2
1515 - 1586
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 3
1524 - 1586
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 4
1526 - 1586
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 5
1517 - 1586
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 6
1526 - 1586
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 7
1508 - 1586
HPI: 68.44
Rank: 8
1554 - 1586
HPI: 66.67
Rank: 9
1528 - 1586
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 10
1509 - 1586
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 11
1536 - 1586
HPI: 64.55
Rank: 12
Among people born in Belgium, Margaret of Parma ranks 49 out of 899. Before her are Guillaume Du Fay (1397), Abraham Ortelius (1527), Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568), James Ensor (1860), Johannes Ockeghem (1410), and Marguerite Yourcenar (1903). After her are Samo (600), Isabella of Austria (1501), Agnès Varda (1928), Julio Cortázar (1914), Pepin of Landen (585), and Hugo van der Goes (1440).
1397 - 1474
HPI: 76.52
Rank: 43
1527 - 1598
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 44
1568 - 1625
HPI: 76.00
Rank: 45
1860 - 1949
HPI: 75.91
Rank: 46
1410 - 1497
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 47
1903 - 1987
HPI: 75.82
Rank: 48
1522 - 1586
HPI: 75.76
Rank: 49
600 - 658
HPI: 75.48
Rank: 50
1501 - 1526
HPI: 75.42
Rank: 51
1928 - 2019
HPI: 75.41
Rank: 52
1914 - 1984
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 53
585 - 640
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 54
1440 - 1482
HPI: 75.24
Rank: 55
Among politicians born in Belgium, Margaret of Parma ranks 18. Before her are Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (1697), Baudouin of Belgium (1930), Eleanor of Austria (1498), William III of the Netherlands (1817), Pepin of Herstal (635), and Ursula von der Leyen (1958). After her are Samo (600), Léon Degrelle (1906), Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (1864), Paul-Henri Spaak (1899), Herman Van Rompuy (1947), and Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (1927).
1697 - 1745
HPI: 77.60
Rank: 12
1930 - 1993
HPI: 77.39
Rank: 13
1498 - 1558
HPI: 77.12
Rank: 14
1817 - 1890
HPI: 76.91
Rank: 15
635 - 714
HPI: 76.63
Rank: 16
1958 - Present
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 17
1522 - 1586
HPI: 75.76
Rank: 18
600 - 658
HPI: 75.48
Rank: 19
1906 - 1994
HPI: 74.89
Rank: 20
1864 - 1945
HPI: 74.35
Rank: 21
1899 - 1972
HPI: 74.27
Rank: 22
1947 - Present
HPI: 73.63
Rank: 23
1927 - 2005
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 24