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Charles I of Anjou

1226 - 1285

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Charles I (early 1226/1227 – 7 January 1285), commonly called Charles of Anjou or Charles d'Anjou, was King of Sicily from 1266 to 1285. He was a member of the royal Capetian dynasty and the founder of the House of Anjou-Sicily. Between 1246 and 1285, he was Count of Provence and Forcalquier in the Holy Roman Empire and Count of Anjou and Maine in France. In 1272 he was proclaimed King of Albania, in 1277 he purchased a claim to the Kingdom of Jerusalem, and in 1278 he became Prince of Achaea after the previous ruler, William of Villehardouin, died without heirs. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles I of Anjou is the 392nd most popular politician (up from 638th in 2019), the 148th most popular biography from France (up from 266th in 2019) and the 36th most popular French Politician.

Charles I of Anjou is most famous for being the king of Sicily and Jerusalem.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Charles I of Anjou ranks 392 out of 19,576. Before him are Raúl Castro, Yitzhak Rabin, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Rudolf Höss, Vyacheslav Molotov, and Peter III of Russia. After him are Peisistratos, Olof Palme, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Ashurbanipal, Stephen I of Hungary, and Gerhard Schröder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1226, Charles I of Anjou ranks 1. After him are Bar Hebraeus, Ata-Malik Juvayni, Guy, Count of Flanders, Bolesław V the Chaste, Herman VI, Margrave of Baden, Sultan Walad, Ulrich I, Count of Württemberg, Gertrude of Austria, Maria of Brabant, Duchess of Bavaria, and Blanche of Navarre, Duchess of Brittany. Among people deceased in 1285, Charles I of Anjou ranks 1. After him are Pope Martin IV, Philip III of France, Peter III of Aragon, Francesca da Rimini, Yekuno Amlak, John II of Jerusalem, Kunigunda of Halych, Philip I, Count of Savoy, Theodora of Trebizond, Daumantas of Lithuania, and John I, Duke of Saxony.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles I of Anjou ranks 148 out of 6,770. Before him are Pope Clement IV (1190), Jean Cocteau (1889), Évariste Galois (1811), Bernard of Clairvaux (1090), Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122), and Roland Barthes (1915). After him are Gérard Depardieu (1948), Paul Verlaine (1844), Jean-François Champollion (1790), Jacques Lacan (1901), Charles VIII of France (1470), and Francis II of France (1544).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Charles I of Anjou ranks 36. Before him are Philip II of France (1165), François Hollande (1954), Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708), Charles VII of France (1403), Hugh Capet (940), and Charles IX of France (1550). After him are Charles VIII of France (1470), Francis II of France (1544), Charles VI of France (1368), Charles V of France (1338), Georges Pompidou (1911), and Godfrey of Bouillon (1060).

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