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Marguerite Porete

1250 - 1310

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Marguerite Porete (French: [maʁɡ(ə)ʁit pɔʁɛt]; 13th century – 1 June 1310) was a Beguine, a French-speaking mystic and the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, a work of Christian mysticism dealing with the workings of agape (divine love). She was burnt at the stake for heresy in Paris in 1310 after a lengthy trial for refusing to remove her book from circulation or to recant her views. Today, Porete's work has been of interest to a diverse number of scholars. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marguerite Porete has received more than 277,068 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Marguerite Porete is the 1,026th most popular writer (down from 979th in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 125th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Belgian Writer.

Marguerite Porete was a French mystic who wrote a book called The Mirror of Simple Souls. She was most famous for being burned at the stake for heresy in 1310.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marguerite Porete ranks 1,026 out of 7,302. Before her are Shūsaku Endō, Egill Skallagrímsson, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Guido Cavalcanti, Persius, and Hrotsvitha. After her are Benito Pérez Galdós, Jean-Claude Carrière, P. D. James, Charles De Coster, B. H. Liddell Hart, and Johanna Schopenhauer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1250, Marguerite Porete ranks 8. Before her are Manco Cápac, Arghun, Halime Hatun, Kitbuqa, John IV Laskaris, and Fra Dolcino. After her are Robert II, Count of Artois, Al-Muazzam Turanshah, John Tristan, Count of Valois, Oghul Qaimish, Pietro d'Abano, and Moses de León. Among people deceased in 1310, Marguerite Porete ranks 1. After her are George Pachymeres, Blanche of Anjou, Beatrice of Burgundy, Lady of Bourbon, Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria, Otto III, Duke of Carinthia, Amalric, Lord of Tyre, Theodoric of Freiberg, Gottfried von Hohenlohe, Athanasius I of Constantinople, Baibars II, and Shlomo ibn Aderet.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Marguerite Porete ranks 128 out of 1,190. Before her are Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502), Princess Louise of Belgium (1858), Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz (1787), Ambiorix (-100), Jacob Le Maire (1585), and Chantal Mouffe (1943). After her are Siger of Brabant (1240), Louis, Prince Napoléon (1914), Louis II, Count of Flanders (1330), Princess Clémentine of Belgium (1872), David Teniers the Younger (1610), and Auguste Perret (1874).

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Among WRITERS In Belgium

Among writers born in Belgium, Marguerite Porete ranks 6. Before her are Maurice Maeterlinck (1862), Georges Simenon (1903), Marguerite Yourcenar (1903), Julio Cortázar (1914), and Émile Verhaeren (1855). After her are Pierre Louÿs (1870), Henri Michaux (1899), Laura Marx (1845), Victor Serge (1890), Georges Rodenbach (1855), and Hugo Claus (1929).

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