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50 Medieval Europe figures

Rulers, warriors, clerics, writers, artists and others from about 1000 AD to about 1500 AD. Includes a couple of non-European figures who still had an impact on the continent's medieval history.
Quiz by Amilcar
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Last updated: May 10, 2023
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First submittedMay 9, 2023
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Crusading English king
Richard the Lionheart
Revolting peasant
Wat Tyler
Reconquista queen
Isabella I
Divine Comedy writer
Dante Alighieri
Muslim warlord who drove crusaders from Jerusalem
Saladin
Redbearded Hohenstaufen Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick I "Barbarossa"
Powerful Norman king of Sicily
Roger II
Great German banker
Jakob Fugger
French heroine against English occupation
Joan of Arc
'Great' Tsar who expanded Russia
Ivan the Great
Florentine banker who made a dynasty
Cosimo de Medici
Conqueror of England
William of Normandy
Sainted thinker of religion and Aristotelean philosophy
Thomas Aquinas
Castillian warlord who fought Moorish kingdoms
El Cid
Greatest Renaissance artist
Leonardo Da Vinci
Scottish warlord fighting English invasion
William Wallace
Murdered and sainted English bishop
Thomas Beckett
Powerful queen of France and England
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Portuguese sponsor of exploration
Henry "the Navigator"
Pope who launched the crusades
Urban II
First Habsburg German king
Rudolf I
Jewish philosopher of Moorish Spain
Maimonides
Bohemia's 'Iron and Golden King'
Ottokar II
English philosopher who pushed empiricism
Roger Bacon
Canterbury Tales writer
Geoffrey Chaucer
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'Saintly' French king who died on crusade
Louis XI
Italian sonneteer who inspired lyric poetry
Petrarch
Founder of Polish-Lithuanian union
Jogaila
Hunchbacked English king
Richard III
Venetian Doge who sacked Constantinople
Enrico Dandolo
His printing press spurred intellectual upheaval
Johannes Gutenberg
United his Aragon with Castille to build Spain
Ferdinand II
His paintings heralded the start of the Renaissance
Giotto
English thinker with a razor
William of Ockham
Early Dutch Renaissance painter
Jan Van Eyck
Hundred Years War warrior prince
Edward the Black Prince
German abbess and scholar
Hildegard of Bingen
Painted Primavera and the Birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli
Italian monk who loved animals
Francis of Assisi
Infamously corrupt pope
Rodrigo Borgia
Dutch scholar who navigated reformation
Erasmus
Bulgarian tsar who refounded a Balkan empire
Kaloyan
First Tudor English king
Henry VII
Ottoman Sultan who conquered Constantinople
Mehmed II
German painter and print maker
Albrecht Durer
Humanist writer of the Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
The last Byzantine emperor
Constantine Palaiologus
Italian traveler and fabulist
Marco Polo
Agincourt victor with 'band of brothers'
Henry V
Pope who expanded Vatican power
Boniface VIII
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marjobro
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Level 66
Jun 9, 2023
Great quiz! i only got half but felt pretty good about knowing Giotto. How could I miss Thomas Aquinas? I wrote a term paper on him eons ago.

Nominated. Hope you'll check out my quiz on Eleanor of Aquitaine....she's my favorite famous ancestor.

Amilcar
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Level 66
Jun 12, 2023
Thank you! And yes I'll check it out.
Amilcar
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Level 66
Jun 12, 2023
And please do check out the other quizzes in my '50 figures' series
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