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Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma

1503 - 1547

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Pier Luigi Farnese (19 November 1503 – 10 September 1547) was the first Duke of Castro from 1537 to 1545 and the first Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1545 to 1547. He was the illegitimate son of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (who later became Pope Paul III). He became a soldier and participated in the sack of Rome in 1527. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma is the 2,582nd most popular politician (up from 3,513th in 2019), the 870th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,117th in 2019) and the 186th most popular Italian Politician.

Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma, was a member of the House of Farnese. He was the son of Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma and Margaret of Austria.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma ranks 2,582 out of 19,576Before him are Vasily Blokhin, Miloš Obrenović, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Fumio Kishida, Childebert II, and Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Stamford Raffles, Karl Radek, Necmettin Erbakan, Polyxena, Daniel of Galicia, and Aslan Maskhadov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1503, Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma ranks 9Before him are Bronzino, Isabella of Portugal, Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, Parmigianino, Christian III of Denmark, and Henry II of Navarre. After him are John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, Robert Estienne, Gerolama Orsini, Bartolomé Carranza, Thomas Wyatt, and Giovanni della Casa. Among people deceased in 1547, Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma ranks 6Before him are Henry VIII of England, Hernán Cortés, Francis I of France, Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, and Vittoria Colonna. After him are Sebastiano del Piombo, Pietro Bembo, Saint Cajetan, Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia, Hadım Suleiman Pasha, and Marie of Luxembourg, Countess of Vendôme.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma ranks 870 out of 5,161Before him are Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1508), Roberto Mancini (1964), Andrew III of Hungary (1265), Antonio Tabucchi (1943), Francesco Cavalli (1602), and Antipope Felix II (300). After him are Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749), Cassiodorus (487), Annibale de Gasparis (1819), Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608), Giulia Farnese (1474), and Gian Galeazzo Visconti (1351).

Among POLITICIANS In Italy

Among politicians born in Italy, Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma ranks 186Before him are Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta (1900), Lucius Cornelius Cinna (-135), Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary (1776), Milo of Croton (-557), Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1508), and Andrew III of Hungary (1265). After him are Gian Galeazzo Visconti (1351), Phalaris (-700), Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily (1782), Filippo Maria Visconti (1392), Berengar II of Italy (900), and Ladislaus of Naples (1377).