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Also Known As Cosimo de’ Medici
Born May 12, 1590
Died February 28, 1621 (aged 30)
House / Dynasty Medici family

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Ferdinand I
grand duke of Tuscany
Ludovico Sforza
Ludovico Sforza
duke of Milan
Cosimo I
Cosimo I
duke of Florence and Tuscany [1519–1574]
Ferdinand II
grand duke of Tuscany
Francis
grand duke of Tuscany
Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici
Italian ruler
portrait of Charlemagne by Albrecht Dürer
Charlemagne
Holy Roman emperor [747?–814]
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Kangxi
emperor of Qing dynasty
Charles Le Brun: Portrait of King Louis XIV
Louis XIV
king of France
Francis I
Francis I
king of France
Akbar
Akbar
Mughal emperor
Qianlong
Qianlong
emperor of Qing dynasty
Alfred the Great
Alfred
king of Wessex
Darius I
Darius I
king of Persia
ʿAbbās I
ʿAbbās I
Ṣafavid shah of Persia
Maḥmūd
king of Ghazna
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
Macedonian king of Egypt
Gajah Mada
Gajah Mada
prime minister of Majapahit Empire
Madame de Pompadour, detail of a portrait by François Boucher; in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour
French aristocrat