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Margaret of Valois
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Margaret of Valois

French salonnière

Born 14 May 1553 · died 27 March 1615, aged 61
Also known as Marguerite d'Angoulême, Marguerite of Valois, Marguerite of Navarre

Who was alive at the same time as Margaret of Valois?

  1. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  2. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  3. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  4. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  5. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500 – 1558
  6. John Calvin, 1509 – 1564
  7. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  8. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  9. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  10. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  11. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  12. Margaret of Valois, 1553 – 1615
  13. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  14. Lope de Vega, 1562 – 1635
  15. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  16. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  17. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630
  18. Peter Paul Rubens, 1577 – 1640
  19. Thomas Hobbes, 1588 – 1679
  20. René Descartes, 1596 – 1650
  21. Diego Velázquez, 1599 – 1660
  22. Oliver Cromwell, 1599 – 1658
  23. Rembrandt, 1606 – 1669
  24. John Milton, 1608 – 1674

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When Margaret of Valois was born, Michelangelo was 78, Elizabeth I was 19, Akbar was 10, Jacques Cartier was 61 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 58.

When Margaret of Valois died, William Shakespeare was 50, Galileo Galilei was 51, René Descartes was 18, Rembrandt was 8 and Francis Bacon was 54.

Born during Margaret of Valois’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Rembrandt, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Peter Paul Rubens and Diego Velázquez.

Not quite contemporaries: Martin Luther died about 7 years before Margaret of Valois was born, Molière was born about 7 years after Margaret of Valois died, Nicolaus Copernicus died about 10 years before Margaret of Valois was born and Blaise Pascal was born about 8 years after Margaret of Valois died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

183 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Margaret of Valois. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1584.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  3. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  4. René Descartes 1596 – 1650
  5. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  6. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
  7. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  8. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  9. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  10. Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
  11. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  12. Diego Velázquez 1599 – 1660
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Thomas Hobbes 1588 – 1679
  15. John Milton 1608 – 1674
  16. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  17. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  18. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  19. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  20. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  21. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  22. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  23. Oliver Cromwell 1599 – 1658
  24. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  25. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  26. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  27. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  28. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  29. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  30. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  31. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
  32. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  33. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  34. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  35. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  36. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  37. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  38. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  39. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  40. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  41. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  42. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  43. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  44. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  45. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  46. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  47. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  48. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  49. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  50. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  51. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  52. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  53. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  54. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  55. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  56. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  57. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  58. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  59. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  60. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  61. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  62. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  63. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  64. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  65. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  66. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  67. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  68. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  69. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  70. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  71. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  72. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  73. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  74. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  75. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  76. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  77. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  78. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  79. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  80. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  81. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  82. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  83. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  84. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  85. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  86. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  87. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  88. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  89. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  90. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  91. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  92. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  93. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  94. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  95. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  96. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  97. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  98. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  99. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  100. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  101. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  102. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  103. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  104. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  105. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  106. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  107. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  108. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  109. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  110. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  111. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  112. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  113. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  114. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  115. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  116. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  117. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  118. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  119. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  120. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  121. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  122. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  123. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  124. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  125. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  126. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  127. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  128. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  129. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  130. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  131. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  132. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  133. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  134. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  135. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  136. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  137. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  138. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  139. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  140. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  141. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  142. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  143. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  144. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  145. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  146. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  147. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  148. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  149. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  150. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666