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William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel

1532 - 1592

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William IV of Hesse-Kassel (24 June 1532 – 25 August 1592), also called William the Wise, was the first Landgrave of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel has received more than 100,430 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel is the 7,900th most popular politician (down from 7,353rd in 2019), the 2,227th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,116th in 2019) and the 667th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ranks 7,900 out of 15,577Before her are Ferdinand Kettler, Ayub Khan, Alghu, Anna of Sweden, Marcus Caelius Rufus, and Svante Nilsson. After her are Velu Nachiyar, Mohammed Ben Aarafa, Edmund Heines, Rosamund, Jan Gies, and Aleksey Arakcheyev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1532, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ranks 9Before her are Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, John Hawkins, Francis Walsingham, Maerten de Vos, Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony, and Archduchess Magdalena of Austria. After her are Luís Fróis, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Marino Grimani, Edzard II, Count of East Frisia, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, and Menocchio. Among people deceased in 1592, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ranks 14Before her are Thomas Cavendish, Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Michiel Coxie. After her are Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Moderata Fonte, Alessandro Striggio, and Girolamo Cassar.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ranks 2,227 out of 6,142Before her are Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria (1439), Walter Sickert (1860), Erich Mühsam (1878), William II, Elector of Hesse (1777), Henry Morgenthau Sr. (1856), and Heinrich Ehrler (1917). After her are Edmund Heines (1897), Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1497), Wolfgang Reitherman (1909), Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1761), Georg Konrad Morgen (1909), and Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (1877).

Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ranks 667Before her are Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt (1794), August Hermann Francke (1663), Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria (1368), Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria (1439), William II, Elector of Hesse (1777), and Henry Morgenthau Sr. (1856). After her are Edmund Heines (1897), Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1761), Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (1877), Heinz Hoffmann (1910), Agnes of Hesse (1527), and Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz (1573).