1492 - 1549
Marguerite de Navarre (French: Marguerite d'Angoulême, Marguerite d'Alençon; 11 April 1492 – 21 December 1549), also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre, was a princess of France, Duchess of Alençon and Berry, and Queen of Navarre by her second marriage to King Henry II of Navarre. Her brother became King of France, as Francis I, and the two siblings were responsible for the celebrated intellectual and cultural court and salons of their day in France. Marguerite is the ancestress of the Bourbon kings of France, being the mother of Jeanne d'Albret, whose son, Henry of Navarre, succeeded as Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon king. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marguerite de Navarre has received more than 510,666 page views. Her biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Marguerite de Navarre is the 304th most popular writer (down from 287th in 2019), the 348th most popular biography from France (down from 324th in 2019) and the 51st most popular French Writer.
Marguerite de Navarre is most famous for her work, The Heptameron, which is a collection of stories about love and lust.
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Among writers, Marguerite de Navarre ranks 304 out of 5,755. Before her are Saadi Shirazi, Fuzûlî, Heinrich von Kleist, Alberto Moravia, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Italo Calvino. After her are Roger Martin du Gard, Lorenzo Valla, J. M. Coetzee, Paul Heyse, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, and Prosper Mérimée.
1210 - 1291
HPI: 69.88
Rank: 298
1494 - 1556
HPI: 69.87
Rank: 299
1777 - 1811
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 300
1907 - 1990
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 301
1929 - Present
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 302
1923 - 1985
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 303
1492 - 1549
HPI: 69.75
Rank: 304
1881 - 1958
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 305
1407 - 1457
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 306
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 307
1830 - 1914
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 308
1892 - 1927
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 309
1803 - 1870
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 310
Among people born in 1492, Marguerite de Navarre ranks 1. After her are Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, Pietro Aretino, Antonio Pigafetta, Juan Luis Vives, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Andrea Alciato, Elizabeth Tudor, John II, Count Palatine of Simmern, Martín de Azpilcueta, Adam Ries, and Jean du Bellay. Among people deceased in 1549, Marguerite de Navarre ranks 2. Before her is Pope Paul III. After her are Il Sodoma, Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, Christine of Saxony, Giampietrino, and Elia Levita.
1492 - 1549
HPI: 69.75
Rank: 1
1492 - 1519
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 2
1492 - 1556
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 3
1492 - 1531
HPI: 63.11
Rank: 4
1492 - 1540
HPI: 62.86
Rank: 5
1492 - 1584
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 6
1492 - 1550
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 7
1492 - 1495
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 8
1492 - 1557
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 9
1492 - 1586
HPI: 52.01
Rank: 10
1492 - 1559
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 11
1492 - 1560
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 12
1468 - 1549
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 1
1492 - 1549
HPI: 69.75
Rank: 2
1477 - 1549
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 3
1508 - 1549
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 4
1505 - 1549
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 5
1495 - 1549
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 6
1469 - 1549
HPI: 51.74
Rank: 7
Among people born in France, Marguerite de Navarre ranks 348 out of 6,011. Before her are Charles, Count of Valois (1270), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Jean Arp (1886), Gustave Moreau (1826), Jeanne d'Albret (1528), and Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752). After her are Roger Martin du Gard (1881), Paul Ricœur (1913), James I of Aragon (1208), Jean Buridan (1295), Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), and Alfred Binet (1857).
1270 - 1325
HPI: 69.88
Rank: 342
1908 - 1961
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 343
1886 - 1966
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 344
1826 - 1898
HPI: 69.80
Rank: 345
1528 - 1572
HPI: 69.78
Rank: 346
1752 - 1834
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 347
1492 - 1549
HPI: 69.75
Rank: 348
1881 - 1958
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 349
1913 - 2005
HPI: 69.69
Rank: 350
1208 - 1276
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 351
1295 - 1361
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 352
1709 - 1751
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 353
1857 - 1911
HPI: 69.63
Rank: 354
Among writers born in France, Marguerite de Navarre ranks 51. Before her are Chrétien de Troyes (1135), Françoise Sagan (1935), Guillaume de Machaut (1300), Paul Valéry (1871), Antonin Artaud (1896), and Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749). After her are Roger Martin du Gard (1881), Prosper Mérimée (1803), Gregory of Tours (538), François Mauriac (1885), Georges Bataille (1897), and André Malraux (1901).
1135 - 1185
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 45
1935 - 2004
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 46
1300 - 1377
HPI: 70.35
Rank: 47
1871 - 1945
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 48
1896 - 1948
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 49
1749 - 1791
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 50
1492 - 1549
HPI: 69.75
Rank: 51
1881 - 1958
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 52
1803 - 1870
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 53
538 - 593
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 54
1885 - 1970
HPI: 69.34
Rank: 55
1897 - 1962
HPI: 69.26
Rank: 56
1901 - 1976
HPI: 69.17
Rank: 57