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Born February 20, 1494 • Sweden
Died December 5, 1570 (aged 76) • Køge • Denmark
Role In Count’s War

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Julius II
pope
Christian III
Christian III
king of Denmark and Norway
Frederick I
Frederick I
king of Denmark and Norway
Thomas Cromwell
Thomas Cromwell
English statesman
Frederick III, detail from a portrait by Karel van Mander III
Frederick III
king of Denmark and Norway
Frederick II, detail from a portrait by Hans Knieper, 1581
Frederick II
king of Denmark and Norway
Adam Gottlob Moltke, oil painting by C.G. Pilo
Adam Gottlob, Greve Moltke
Danish government official
portrait of Charlemagne by Albrecht Dürer
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Holy Roman emperor [747?–814]
Frederick II
Frederick II
Holy Roman emperor
Henry IV, undated copperplate engraving.
Henry IV
king of France
Paul III
Paul III
pope
Leo X
Leo X
pope
Akbar
Akbar
Mughal emperor
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni: portrait of Joseph II
Joseph II
Holy Roman emperor
Maria Theresa
Maria Theresa
Holy Roman empress
Mikhail Mikhaylovich, Count Speransky
Russian statesman
Darius I
Darius I
king of Persia
Gustav I Vasa
Gustav I Vasa
king of Sweden
Charles III
Charles III
king of Spain
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