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Juan de Valdés

1505 - 1541

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Juan de Valdés (c.1490 – August 1541) was a Spanish religious writer and Catholic reformer. He was the younger of twin sons of Fernando de Valdés, hereditary regidor of Cuenca in Castile, where Valdés was born. He has been confused with his twin brother Alfonso (a courtier of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, who attended Charles's coronation in Aachen in 1520 and was Latin secretary of state from 1524). Alfonso died in 1532 in Vienna. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Juan de Valdés is the 2,463rd most popular writer (down from 2,353rd in 2019), the 821st most popular biography from Spain (down from 796th in 2019) and the 92nd most popular Spanish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Juan de Valdés ranks 2,463 out of 7,302. Before him are William Auld, Alex Haley, Caesarius of Heisterbach, Apollonius Dyscolus, Dares Phrygius, and Jules Supervielle. After him are Ron Kovic, Umberto Saba, Tanya Savicheva, Michele Ruggieri, Alfréd Wetzler, and Forrest J Ackerman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1505, Juan de Valdés ranks 8. Before him are Mary of Hungary, Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg, Andrea Amati, Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford, Michel de l'Hôpital, and Mikołaj Rej. After him are Lambert Lombard, Christine of Saxony, Nikolaus Federmann, Christoph Amberger, Vicente Juan Masip, and Pierre Robert Olivétan. Among people deceased in 1541, Juan de Valdés ranks 14. Before him are Jean Clouet, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, Francysk Skaryna, Bernard van Orley, Andreas Karlstadt, and Fernando de Rojas. After him are Thomas Culpeper, and Wolfgang Capito.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Juan de Valdés ranks 821 out of 3,355. Before him are Melchor Cano (1509), Enric Prat de la Riba (1870), Edmundo Suárez (1916), Ferran Olivella (1936), Antonio María Rouco Varela (1936), and Pau Claris i Casademunt (1586). After him are Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869), Infanta María Amalia of Spain (1779), Ramon Borrell, Count of Barcelona (972), José Coronado (1957), Javier Echevarría Rodríguez (1932), and Enrique Líster (1907).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Juan de Valdés ranks 92. Before him are Fernando de Rojas (1470), Eduardo Mendoza Garriga (1943), Wallada bint al-Mustakfi (null), Juvencus (400), Juan del Encina (1468), and José Luis de Vilallonga, 9th Marquess of Castellbell (1920). After him are Guillén de Castro y Bellvis (1569), Jorge Guillén (1893), Ramón Sampedro (1943), Francisco Ayala (1906), Luis Cernuda (1902), and Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760).

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