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Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor
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Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor

Holy Roman Emperor

Born 24 February 1557 · died 20 March 1619, aged 62
Also known as Emperor Matthias

Who was alive at the same time as Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor?

  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. Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor, 1557 – 1619
  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 Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor was born, Michelangelo was 81, Elizabeth I was 23, Akbar was 14, Jacques Cartier was 65 and Suleiman the Magnificent was 62.

When Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor died, Galileo Galilei was 55, René Descartes was 22, Rembrandt was 12, Francis Bacon was 58 and Johannes Kepler was 47.

Born during Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor’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 11 years before Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor was born, Molière was born about 3 years after Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor died, Nicolaus Copernicus died about 14 years before Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor was born and John Locke was born about 13 years after Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

177 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1588.

  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. Charles I of England 1600 – 1649
  34. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  35. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  36. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  37. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  38. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
  39. Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1600 – 1681
  40. Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642
  41. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  42. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
  43. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  44. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  45. John Donne 1572 – 1631
  46. Shah Jahan 1592 – 1666
  47. John Amos Comenius 1592 – 1670
  48. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
  49. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  50. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  51. Louis XIII 1601 – 1643
  52. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
  53. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  54. Hugo Grotius 1583 – 1645
  55. William Harvey 1578 – 1657
  56. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
  57. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  58. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  59. Nicolas Poussin 1594 – 1665
  60. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  61. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  62. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  63. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  64. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  65. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  66. Miyamoto Musashi 1584 – 1645
  67. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  68. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  69. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  70. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  71. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  72. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  73. Pope Innocent XI 1611 – 1689
  74. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  75. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  76. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  77. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  78. Gustavus Adolphus 1594 – 1632
  79. Anthony van Dyck 1599 – 1641
  80. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  81. Francisco de Quevedo 1584 – 1645
  82. Philip IV of Spain 1605 – 1665
  83. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  84. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  85. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  86. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  87. Pope Innocent X 1574 – 1655
  88. Cardinal Mazarin 1602 – 1661
  89. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  90. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  91. Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1598 – 1664
  92. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617 – 1682
  93. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  94. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  95. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  96. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  97. Philip III of Spain 1578 – 1621
  98. Pope Clement X 1590 – 1676
  99. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598 – 1680
  100. Pope Alexander VII 1599 – 1667
  101. Pope Clement IX 1600 – 1669
  102. Pope Alexander VIII 1610 – 1691
  103. Pope Innocent XII 1615 – 1700
  104. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  105. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  106. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  107. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  108. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  109. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  110. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  111. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  112. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  113. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  114. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  115. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  116. Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 – 1653
  117. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  118. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  119. Samuel de Champlain c. 1570 – 1635
  120. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  121. Baltasar Gracián c. 1603 – 1658
  122. Osman II 1604 – 1622
  123. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  124. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  125. Iskandar Muda 1583 – 1636
  126. Ahmed I 1590 – 1617
  127. Murad IV 1612 – 1640
  128. Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire 1615 – 1648
  129. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  130. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  131. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  132. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  133. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  134. Mustafa I 1591 – 1639
  135. Michael of Russia 1596 – 1645
  136. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  137. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  138. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor 1578 – 1637
  139. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  140. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  141. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563
  142. Margaret of Valois 1553 – 1615
  143. Mumtaz Mahal 1593 – 1631
  144. Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1595 – 1657
  145. John Knox c. 1514 – 1572
  146. François Viète 1540 – 1603
  147. Frans Hals 1580s – 1666
  148. Jusepe de Ribera 1591 – 1652
  149. Marie de' Medici 1575 – 1642
  150. Benvenuto Cellini 1500 – 1571