MILITARY PERSONNEL

Minamoto no Yoshinaka

1154 - 1184

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Minamoto no Yoshinaka (源 義仲, 1154 – February 21, 1184), also known as Kiso Yoshinaka (木曾 義仲), was a Japanese samurai lord in the late Heian period. A member of the Minamoto clan, shogun Minamoto no Yoritomo was his cousin and rival during the Genpei War between the Minamoto and the Taira clans. In The Tale of the Heike, he is known as Asahi Shogun (朝日将軍). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Minamoto no Yoshinaka has received more than 258,736 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Minamoto no Yoshinaka is the 471st most popular military personnel (up from 613th in 2019).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Minamoto no Yoshinaka ranks 471 out of 2,058. Before him are Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, Johannes Frießner, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Fyodor Ushakov, Andreas Hofer, and George Maniakes. After him are Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., Alfred Redl, Honda Tadakatsu, Karl von Bülow, Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, and Tamon Yamaguchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1154, Minamoto no Yoshinaka ranks 3. Before him are Constance, Queen of Sicily, and Sancho I of Portugal. After him are Maria Komnene, Queen of Jerusalem, Vsevolod the Big Nest, Sancho VII of Navarre, Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon, Robert II, Count of Dreux, and Benoît de Sainte-Maure. Among people deceased in 1184, Minamoto no Yoshinaka ranks 4. Before him are Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy, Agnes of Antioch, and Abu Yaqub Yusuf. After him are George III of Georgia, Otto I, Margrave of Brandenburg, Arnold of Torroja, Heinrich von Veldeke, Bénézet, Magnus V of Norway, and Theodora Komnene, Duchess of Austria.

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