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William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

1625 - 1681

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William Christoph of Hesse-Homburg (13 November 1625, Ober-Rosbach – 27 August 1681, then in Bingenheim, now in Echzell) was the second Landgraf of Hesse-Homburg (then known as "Landgraf of Bingenheim") during 1648–1669. He was the third (second surviving) of five sons of Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, and succeeded his brother Ludwig I as Landgrave in 1643, but his mother was regent until 1648. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg has received more than 28,382 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg is the 10,940th most popular politician (up from 12,183rd in 2019), the 3,266th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,641st in 2019) and the 934th most popular German Politician.

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Among politicians, William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg ranks 10,940 out of 19,576Before him are Marie of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Henry I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark, B. D. Jatti, Margherita Aldobrandini, Tang Shaoyi, and Gaston, Marquis de Galliffet. After him are Shepenupet I, Eustace I, Count of Boulogne, Christian Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Francesco Venier, Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg, and Vitaly Vorotnikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1625, William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg ranks 12Before him are John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg, Erik Dahlbergh, Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern, Thomas Corneille, Gregorio Barbarigo, and François de Créquy. After him are Jean Domat, Pierre Nicole, Ferdinand Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Baden, Filippo Baldinucci, Samuel Morland, and Marie de Nemours. Among people deceased in 1681, William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg ranks 12Before him are Zheng Jing, Justus Sustermans, Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, Frans van Mieris the Elder, Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels, and Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken. After him are Nikolay Diletsky, Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz, Hermann Conring, Agafya Grushetskaya, Oliver Plunkett, and Fatima Soltan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg ranks 3,266 out of 7,253Before him are Carola Neher (1900), Ernst May (1886), Hans Bauer (1927), Henry I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark (1070), Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (1786), and Otto Ambros (1901). After him are Christian Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1683), Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg (1547), Nannette Streicher (1769), Andi Deris (1964), Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern (1868), and Margaret of Thuringia (1449).

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