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Also Known As Jan van Imbize
Born July 9, 1513 • Ghent • Belgium
Died August 4, 1584 (aged 71) • Ghent • Belgium
Title / Office mayor (1583-1584), Ghent • mayor (1577-1579), Ghent
Fra Bartolomeo: portrait of Girolamo Savonarola
Girolamo Savonarola
Italian preacher
Pius V
Saint Pius V
pope
Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros
Spanish cardinal
Mary I
Mary I
queen of England
William S. Cohen
United States senator and secretary of defense
Léopold Senghor
Léopold Senghor
president of Senegal
John Aylmer
bishop of London
Arundel, Thomas
Thomas Arundel
archbishop of Canterbury
Boulter, detail of a portrait attributed to Francis Bindon; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Hugh Boulter
archbishop of Armagh
Folquet De Marseille
Provençal troubadour and clergyman
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius
Dutch statesman and scholar
Sister Louise Van der Schrieck
Roman Catholic nun
Adrian VI
Adrian VI
pope
Stephanus Van Cortlandt
American politician
Johan van Waveren Hudde
Dutch mathematician
Jacobus Revius
Dutch writer
Gisbertus Voetius
Dutch theologian
Kenneth A. Gibson
American politician
Frank Rizzo
American politician