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Radegund

518 - 587

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Radegund (Latin: Radegundis; also spelled Rhadegund, Radegonde, or Radigund; c. 520 – 13 August 587) was a Thuringian princess and Frankish queen, who founded the Abbey of the Holy Cross at Poitiers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Radegund has received more than 208,596 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Radegund is the 1,195th most popular writer (down from 1,086th in 2019), the 1,201st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,089th in 2019) and the 77th most popular German Writer.

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  • 65.98

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  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Radegund ranks 1,195 out of 7,302. Before her are Adolfo Bioy Casares, Marcus Manilius, Emmanuelle Arsan, Solomon Northup, Juan Rulfo, and Elizabeth Gaskell. After her are Subramania Bharati, Max Nordau, Pierre de Marivaux, Aristophanes of Byzantium, Dan Simmons, and Alexander Kielland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 518, Radegund ranks 1. After her are Taliesin, Mataswintha, and Saint Mungo. Among people deceased in 587, Radegund ranks 4. Before her are Varāhamihira, Saint Maurus, and Emperor Yōmei. After her is Æscwine of Essex.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Radegund ranks 1,201 out of 7,253. Before her are Hermann Graf (1912), Franz Seldte (1882), Oskar Morgenstern (1902), Adolf Strauss (1879), George, Duke of Saxony (1471), and Helmut Haller (1939). After her are Barbara Blomberg (1527), Margot Honecker (1927), Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739), Reinhard Genzel (1952), Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Electress of Brandenburg (1597), and Douglas Sirk (1897).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Radegund ranks 77. Before her are Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans (1426), August von Kotzebue (1761), Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752), Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929), Gottfried Benn (1886), and Rudolf von Sebottendorf (1875). After her are Theodor Storm (1817), Johann Peter Eckermann (1792), Johannes Valentinus Andreae (1586), Wilhelm Weitling (1808), Siegfried Kracauer (1889), and Jakob Wassermann (1873).

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