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Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans

1426 - 1487

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Marie of Cleves (19 September 1426 – 23 August 1487) was the third wife of Charles, Duke of Orléans. She was born a German princess, the last child of Adolph I, Duke of Cleves and his second wife, Mary of Burgundy. Marie was a patron of letters and commissioned many works; she was also an active poet herself, producing ballads and other verses. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans has received more than 53,591 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans is the 1,124th most popular writer (up from 1,244th in 2019), the 1,122nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,276th in 2019) and the 71st most popular German Writer.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.61

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  • 1.65

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans ranks 1,124 out of 7,302. Before her are Ernst Hanfstaengl, P. L. Travers, Alain-Fournier, Norman Mailer, Antarah ibn Shaddad, and Agathon. After her are Lü Dongbin, Edmund Spenser, John Grisham, August von Kotzebue, Lycophron, and Clément Marot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1426, Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans ranks 2. Before her is Christian I of Denmark. After her are Eleanor of Navarre, John II, Duke of Bourbon, Giovanni Pontano, and Isabella of Scotland, Duchess of Brittany. Among people deceased in 1487, Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans ranks 4. Before her are Chenghua Emperor, Mara Branković, and Nicholas of Flüe. After her are Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus, John Argyropoulos, Tlacaelel, Yunus Khan, Hayder of Crimea, and John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans ranks 1,122 out of 7,253. Before her are Killing of Peter Fechter (1944), Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria (1831), Ernst Hanfstaengl (1887), Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim (1594), Friedrich Sertürner (1783), and Gustav Noske (1868). After her are Hans Aumeier (1906), Engelbert Kaempfer (1651), Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1641), Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1696), Bruno the Great (925), and Severinus of Noricum (410).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans ranks 71. Before her are Charles De Coster (1827), Emanuel Schikaneder (1751), Ernst Barlach (1870), Georg Kaiser (1878), Alfred Brehm (1829), and Ernst Hanfstaengl (1887). After her are August von Kotzebue (1761), Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752), Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929), Gottfried Benn (1886), Rudolf von Sebottendorf (1875), and Radegund (518).

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