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Lucrezia Borgia
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Lucrezia Borgia

Spanish consort

Born 18 April 1480 · died 24 June 1519, aged 39
Also known as Lucretia Borgia, Lucrecia Borgia

Who was alive at the same time as Lucrezia Borgia?

  1. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  2. Sandro Botticelli, c. 1445 – 1510
  3. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  4. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  5. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  6. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  7. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  8. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  9. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  10. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  11. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  12. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  13. Lucrezia Borgia, 1480 – 1519
  14. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  15. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  16. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  17. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  18. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  19. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  20. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  21. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  22. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  23. Nostradamus, 1503 – 1566
  24. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564

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When Lucrezia Borgia was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 28, Michelangelo was 5, Christopher Columbus was 28 or 29, Niccolò Machiavelli was 10 and Nicolaus Copernicus was 7.

When Lucrezia Borgia died, Michelangelo was 44, Martin Luther was 35, Niccolò Machiavelli was 50, Nicolaus Copernicus was 46 and Raphael was 36.

Born during Lucrezia Borgia’s lifetime: Martin Luther, Raphael, Hernán Cortés, Jacques Cartier, Suleiman the Magnificent, Mimar Sinan, John Calvin and François Rabelais.

Not quite contemporaries: Elizabeth I was born about 14 years after Lucrezia Borgia died, Johannes Gutenberg died about 11 years before Lucrezia Borgia was born, Michel de Montaigne was born about 14 years after Lucrezia Borgia died and Ivan the Terrible was born about 11 years after Lucrezia Borgia died.

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The 130 best-known contemporaries

130 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Lucrezia Borgia. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1500.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  7. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  8. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  9. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  10. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  11. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  12. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  13. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  15. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  16. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  17. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  18. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  19. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  20. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  21. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  22. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  23. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  24. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  25. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  26. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  27. Babur 1483 – 1530
  28. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  29. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  30. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  31. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  32. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  33. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  34. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  35. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  36. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  37. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  38. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  39. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  40. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  41. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  42. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  43. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  44. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  45. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  46. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  47. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  48. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  49. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  50. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  51. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  52. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  53. Jami 1414 – 1492
  54. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  55. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  56. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  57. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  58. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  59. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  60. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  61. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  62. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  63. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  64. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  65. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  66. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  67. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  68. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  69. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  70. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  71. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  72. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  73. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  74. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  75. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  76. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  77. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  78. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  79. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  80. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  81. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  82. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  83. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  84. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  85. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  86. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  87. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  88. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  89. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  90. Marsilio Ficino 1433 – 1499
  91. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  92. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  93. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  94. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  95. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  96. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  97. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  98. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  99. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  100. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  101. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  102. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  103. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  104. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  105. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  106. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  107. James V 1512 – 1542
  108. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  109. Michael Servetus 1511 – 1553
  110. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  111. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  112. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571
  113. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  114. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  115. Anne of Cleves 1515 – 1557
  116. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  117. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  118. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  119. Bronzino 1503 – 1572
  120. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  121. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  122. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  123. Jane Seymour 1508 – 1537
  124. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  125. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  126. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  127. James IV 1473 – 1513
  128. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  129. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  130. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535