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Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg

1599 - 1655

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Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (11 November 1599 – 28 March 1655) was Queen of Sweden from 1620 to 1632 as the wife of King Gustav II Adolph (Gustavus Adolphus). She was born a German princess as the daughter of John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg, and Anna, Duchess of Prussia, daughter of Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia. In 1620, Maria Eleonora married Gustavus Adolphus with her mother's consent, but against the will of her brother George William, Elector of Brandenburg, who had just succeeded her father. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg has received more than 287,483 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg is the 143rd most popular companion (up from 151st in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from Russia (up from 215th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Companion.

Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg is most famous for being the Queen of Sweden from 1654 to 1660. She was the daughter of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg and she married King Charles X Gustav of Sweden in 1654.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg ranks 143 out of 784. Before her are Caroline of Baden, Anne of Foix-Candale, Elizabeth of Bosnia, Cunigunde of Luxembourg, Asiya, and Maria Luisa of Savoy. After her are Margherita of Savoy, Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Charlotte of Savoy, and Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1599, Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg ranks 6. Before her are Diego Velázquez, Oliver Cromwell, Anthony van Dyck, Pope Alexander VII, and Francesco Borromini. After her are Stefan Czarniecki, Christian the Younger of Brunswick, Adriaen van Utrecht, Pieter van Laer, Ottavio Piccolomini, and Andrea Sacchi. Among people deceased in 1655, Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg ranks 4. Before her are Pope Innocent X, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Pierre Gassendi. After her are Eleonora Gonzaga, Margaret of Savoy, Vicereine of Portugal, Janusz Radziwiłł, Cristóbal de Morales, Ukita Hideie, Eustache Le Sueur, Daniël Heinsius, and Francesco Molin.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg ranks 194 out of 3,761. Before her are Ivan I of Moscow (1288), Gotthard Heinrici (1886), Vladimir Propp (1895), Andrei Tupolev (1888), Grigori Perelman (1966), and Alexander Herzen (1812). After her are Aleksandr Ulyanov (1866), Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (1882), Valery Gerasimov (1955), Vasily Smyslov (1921), Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (1690), and Christian Goldbach (1690).

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Among COMPANIONS In Russia

Among companions born in Russia, Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg ranks 3. Before her are Anna Pavlovna of Russia (1795), and Gala Dalí (1894). After her are Olga Constantinovna of Russia (1851), Yevdokiya Lopukhina (1669), Duchess Anna of Prussia (1576), Catharina of Württemberg (1783), Natalia Pushkina (1812), Anna Demidova (1878), and Agafya Grushetskaya (1663).

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