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William IV, Duke of Bavaria

1493 - 1550

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William IV (German: Wilhelm IV; 13 November 1493 – 7 March 1550) was Duke of Bavaria from 1508 to 1550, until 1545 together with his younger brother Louis X, Duke of Bavaria. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William IV, Duke of Bavaria has received more than 125,305 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). William IV, Duke of Bavaria is the 3,328th most popular politician (down from 3,175th in 2019), the 906th most popular biography from Germany (down from 879th in 2019) and the 264th most popular German Politician.

William IV, Duke of Bavaria, was most famous for being a member of the House of Wittelsbach and for being the father of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William IV, Duke of Bavaria ranks 3,328 out of 15,577Before him are Ramiro II of Aragon, John George, Elector of Brandenburg, Cleopatra Selene of Syria, William I of Württemberg, Viracocha Inca, and Thessalonike of Macedon. After him are Salome Alexandra, Chang Myon, Louis I, Duke of Bavaria, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Emperor Zhezong, and Berengaria of Castile.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1493, William IV, Duke of Bavaria ranks 5Before him are Paracelsus, Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, Maximilian Sforza, and Anne de Montmorency. After him are Sten Sture the Younger, Olaus Petri, Tansen, Yamamoto Kansuke, Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, Clarice de' Medici, and Nicolaus Olahus. Among people deceased in 1550, William IV, Duke of Bavaria ranks 2Before him is John of God. After him are Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Claude, Duke of Guise, Andrea Alciato, Francesco III Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Françoise d'Alençon, Jón Arason, Pir Sultan Abdal, Gian Giorgio Trissino, Ambrosius Benson, and Sebald Beham.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, William IV, Duke of Bavaria ranks 906 out of 6,142Before him are Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (1635), Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1370), Reinhard Scheer (1863), John George, Elector of Brandenburg (1525), Kurt Koffka (1886), and Thietmar of Merseburg (975). After him are Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (1173), Tannhäuser (1205), Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria (1724), Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (1754), Dorothea of Brandenburg (1430), and William II of Württemberg (1848).

Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, William IV, Duke of Bavaria ranks 264Before him are Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927), Gottlob Berger (1896), Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1671), Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (1946), Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1370), and John George, Elector of Brandenburg (1525). After him are Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (1173), William II of Württemberg (1848), Leopold I, Margrave of Austria (940), Walter Hallstein (1901), Marie of Prussia (1825), and Ernst vom Rath (1909).