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Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex

1565 - 1601

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Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, KG, PC (; 10 November 1565 – 25 February 1601) was an English nobleman and a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. Politically ambitious, and a committed general, he was placed under house arrest following a poor campaign in Ireland during the Nine Years' War in 1599. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex has received more than 1,814,584 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex is the 7,311th most popular politician (down from 6,046th in 2019), the 1,440th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,270th in 2019) and the 238th most popular British Politician.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex ranks 7,311 out of 19,576. Before him are Rutilius Claudius Namatianus, Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, John II, Duke of Brabant, Alexandre Ribot, Agnes of Hesse, and Emperor Murakami. After him are Halldór Ásgrímsson, Petru Lucinschi, Ruslan Khasbulatov, William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, François de Charette, and Enrique Peña Nieto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1565, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex ranks 9. Before him are Mori Ranmaru, Marie de Gournay, Cornelis de Houtman, Francesc Ribalta, Reza Abbasi, and Luís Vaz de Torres. After him are Ketevan the Martyr, Hendrick de Keyser, Peter Fourier, Jacob de Gheyn II, Alessandro Tassoni, and Nicolò Longobardo. Among people deceased in 1601, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex ranks 8. Before him are Michael the Brave, Louise of Lorraine, Kuchum, Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Henriette of Cleves, and Starina Novak. After him are Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg, Ivan Moskvitin, John Shakespeare, and Thomas Nashe.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex ranks 1,440 out of 8,785. Before him are Andy Summers (1942), Robert Wyatt (1945), Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (1944), Alvin Lee (1944), Elvis Costello (1954), and John Nash (1752). After him are Jason Isaacs (1963), David Hemmings (1941), David Bradley (1942), George Arliss (1868), Reginald Doherty (1872), and Maurice Wilkes (1913).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex ranks 238. Before him are Herbert Pitman (1877), Constantine II of Scotland (801), Prince William, Duke of Cumberland (1721), Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799), Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (1673), and Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (1944). After him are Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1473), Arthur Phillip (1738), Henry Pelham (1694), Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (1373), John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504), and Edward the Exile (1016).

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