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William IV, Duke of Aquitaine

935 - 994

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William IV (937 – 3 February 994), called Fierebras or Fierebrace (meaning "Proud Arm", from the French Fier-à-bras or Fièrebrace, in turn from the Latin Ferox brachium), was the Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitou from 963 to his retirement in 990. William's father, William III, abdicated to the abbey of Saint-Cyprien in Poitiers and left the government to Fierebras. His mother was Gerloc, the daughter of Duke Rollo of Normandy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William IV, Duke of Aquitaine has received more than 74,271 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). William IV, Duke of Aquitaine is the 7,662nd most popular politician (down from 7,202nd in 2019), the 2,245th most popular biography from France (down from 2,157th in 2019) and the 534th most popular French Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 74k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year William IV, Duke of Aquitaine has had the most page views in the with 12,395 views, followed by French (6,414), and Spanish (1,949). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Swedish (34.97%), Catalan (22.12%), and Greek (18.18%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William IV, Duke of Aquitaine ranks 7,662 out of 19,576. Before him are Ukita Hideie, Maria of Serbia, Queen of Bosnia, Sidney Reilly, Sidney Sonnino, Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, and Nikolai Krylenko. After him are Sergio Pininfarina, Sanghamitta, Yusuf II, Almohad caliph, Eliza Lynch, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, and Hasan Prishtina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 935, William IV, Duke of Aquitaine ranks 4. Before him are Harald Bluetooth, Hrotsvitha, and Harald Greycloak. After him are Al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar, and Michitsuna's mother. Among people deceased in 994, William IV, Duke of Aquitaine ranks 5. Before him are Leopold I, Margrave of Austria, Sancho II of Pamplona, 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi, and Wolfgang of Regensburg.

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In France

Among people born in France, William IV, Duke of Aquitaine ranks 2,245 out of 6,770. Before him are Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans (1648), Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823), Jacques Amyot (1513), Joseph Monier (1823), René Fonck (1894), and Thierry Sabine (1949). After him are Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788), Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786), Beatrice of Lorraine (1017), Benedict Joseph Labre (1748), Eugène Marin Labiche (1815), and Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano (1628).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, William IV, Duke of Aquitaine ranks 534. Before him are Marie Anne de La Trémoille, princesse des Ursins (1642), Catherine of Burgundy (1378), Maurice Couve de Murville (1907), Géraud Duroc (1772), Joseph Darnand (1897), and Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons (1635). After him are Beatrice of Lorraine (1017), Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano (1628), Drogo of Champagne (670), Bernard Collomb (1930), Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine (1608), and Edgar Faure (1908).

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