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Michel de l'Hôpital

1505 - 1573

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Michel de l'Hôpital (or l'Hospital; 1506 – 13 March 1573) was a French lawyer, diplomat and chancellor during the latter Italian Wars and the early French Wars of Religion. The son of a doctor in the service of Constable Bourbon he spent his early life exiled from France at Bourbon's and then the emperors court. When his father entered the service of the House of Lorraine, he entered the patronage network of Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michel de l'Hôpital has received more than 60,424 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Michel de l'Hôpital is the 8,461st most popular politician (up from 8,700th in 2019), the 2,517th most popular biography from France (up from 2,622nd in 2019) and the 584th most popular French Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Michel de l'Hôpital ranks 8,461 out of 19,576Before him are Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom, Manuel Roxas, Edith Roosevelt, Anker Jørgensen, Robert H. Jackson, and Ariobarzanes I of Cappadocia. After him are Octavia the Elder, Alexander Mach, Gotō Shinpei, Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, Enrico Letta, and Lupus II of Gascony.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1505, Michel de l'Hôpital ranks 6Before him are Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Mary of Hungary, Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg, Andrea Amati, and Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford. After him are Juan de Valdés, Christine of Saxony, Mikołaj Rej, Christoph Amberger, Lambert Lombard, and Nikolaus Federmann. Among people deceased in 1573, Michel de l'Hôpital ranks 11Before him are Rafael Bombelli, Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Matija Gubec, Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Azai Nagamasa, and Hedwig Jagiellon, Electress of Brandenburg. After him are Malyuta Skuratov, Joachim Beuckelaer, Laurentius Petri, Asakura Yoshikage, Étienne Jodelle, and Antun Vrančić.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel de l'Hôpital ranks 2,517 out of 6,770Before him are Joan, Duchess of Brittany (1324), Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735), Emmanuel Carrère (1957), Jean d'Ormesson (1925), Adolphe Nourrit (1802), and Carolus-Duran (1837). After him are Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788), Zaz (1980), Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma (1940), Antoine-Louis Barye (1795), Albert, 4th duc de Broglie (1821), and Charles Xavier Thomas (1785).

Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Michel de l'Hôpital ranks 584Before him are Étienne Maurice Gérard (1773), Thomas, Count of Flanders (1199), Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1700), Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans (1328), Elisabeth of Lorraine (1574), and Joan, Duchess of Brittany (1324). After him are Albert, 4th duc de Broglie (1821), Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau (1846), Pierre-Étienne Flandin (1889), Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine (1448), Jacques Laffitte (1767), and Georges Cadoudal (1771).