NOBLEMAN

Margaret of Valois

1553 - 1615

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Margaret of Valois (French: Marguerite, 14 May 1553 – 27 March 1615), popularly known as La Reine Margot, was Queen of Navarre from 1572 to 1599 and Queen of France from 1589 to 1599 as the consort of Henry IV of France and III of Navarre. Margaret was the daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici and the sister of Kings Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III. Her union with Henry of Navarre, intended to contribute to the reconciliation of Catholics and Huguenots in France, was tarnished six days after the marriage ceremony by the St Bartholomew's Day massacre and the resumption of the French Wars of Religion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret of Valois has received more than 2,525,084 page views. Her biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Margaret of Valois is the 37th most popular nobleman (up from 45th in 2019), the 209th most popular biography from France (up from 243rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Nobleman.

Margaret of Valois was the daughter of King Louis XII of France and Queen Anne of Brittany. She was married to King Henry VIII of England. She was most famous for her role in the War of the Roses, which was a civil war in England.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Margaret of Valois ranks 37 out of 1,415. Before her are Şehzade Mehmed, Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, Ramesses I, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Charles the Bold, and Queen Sofía of Spain. After her are Marie de' Medici, Edward VII, El Cid, Otto von Habsburg, Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, and Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1553, Margaret of Valois ranks 2. Before her is Henry IV of France. After her are Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia, Archduke Ernest of Austria, Louise of Lorraine, Patriarch Filaret of Moscow, Luca Marenzio, Marie of Cleves, Princess of Condé, Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma, Prospero Alpini, Nicolò Contarini, and John Florio. Among people deceased in 1615, Margaret of Valois ranks 1. After her are Hans von Aachen, Toyotomi Hideyori, Sanada Yukimura, Giambattista della Porta, Dom Justo Takayama, Heo Jun, Yodo-dono, Virginia de' Medici, Claudio Acquaviva, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, and Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia.

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In France

Among people born in France, Margaret of Valois ranks 209 out of 6,770. Before her are Alexis de Tocqueville (1805), Letizia Ramolino (1750), Nicolas Sarkozy (1955), Jean Marais (1913), Jean-Luc Godard (1930), and Roland Barthes (1915). After her are Charles IV of France (1294), François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), Pope Clement IV (1190), Pope Urban IV (1185), and Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789).

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Among NOBLEMEN In France

Among noblemen born in France, Margaret of Valois ranks 7. Before her are William the Conqueror (1028), Marie Thérèse of France (1778), Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122), Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark (1934), Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême (1775), and Charles the Bold (1433). After her are Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1640), Pope Leo IX (1002), Raynald of Châtillon (1123), Robert Guiscard (1016), Philip the Bold (1342), and Charles, Count of Valois (1270).

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