RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Saint Casimir

1458 - 1484

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Casimir Jagiellon (Latin: Casimirus; Lithuanian: Kazimieras; Polish: Kazimierz; 3 October 1458 – 4 March 1484) was a prince of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The second son of King Casimir IV Jagiellon, he was tutored by Johannes Longinus, a Polish chronicler and diplomat. After his elder brother Vladislaus was elected as King of Bohemia in 1471, Casimir became the heir apparent. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saint Casimir has received more than 343,950 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Saint Casimir is the 617th most popular religious figure (down from 592nd in 2019), the 120th most popular biography from Poland (down from 110th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Religious Figure.

Saint Casimir is most famous for being the patron saint of Poland. He was born in 1458 and died in 1484.

Memorability Metrics

  • 340k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Saint Casimir ranks 617 out of 3,187. Before him are Giulia Farnese, Korah, Abu Dhar al-Ghifari, Isaac of Nineveh, Sa'id bin Zayd, and Alexius of Rome. After him are Gregory Thaumaturgus, Gamaliel, Pope Alexander I of Alexandria, Pope Eusebius, Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, and Mahākāśyapa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1458, Saint Casimir ranks 1. After him are Sebastian Brant, Piri Mehmed Pasha, Eleanor of Viseu, Jacopo Sannazaro, Katherine Woodville, Duchess of Buckingham, and John II, Duke of Cleves. Among people deceased in 1484, Saint Casimir ranks 2. Before him is Pope Sixtus IV. After him are Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales, Federico I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua, Luigi Pulci, Ippolita Maria Sforza, Mino da Fiesole, Nicolas Froment, and Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Saint Casimir ranks 120 out of 1,694. Before him are Osip Mandelstam (1891), Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (1895), Alfred von Tirpitz (1849), Helena Rubinstein (1872), Joseph Rotblat (1908), and Władysław Sikorski (1881). After him are Karl Hanke (1903), Kurt Daluege (1897), Albert Sabin (1906), Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg (1767), Alexandre Colonna-Walewski (1810), and Olga Tokarczuk (1962).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Poland

Among religious figures born in Poland, Saint Casimir ranks 5. Before him are Pope John Paul II (1920), Maximilian Kolbe (1894), Faustina Kowalska (1905), and Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906). After him are Angelus Silesius (1624), Stanislaus of Szczepanów (1030), Stanislaus Kostka (1550), Itzhak Stern (1901), Hyacinth of Poland (1185), Jerzy Popiełuszko (1947), and Stefan Wyszyński (1901).

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