Pope Adrian VI
1459 CE–1523 CE · Utrecht
Born Adriaan Florensz Boeyens in Utrecht, he was a distinguished theologian at Louvain who became tutor to the future Emperor Charles V, then regent and inquisitor-general in Spain. Elected in absentia, he was the last non-Italian pope until John Paul II in 1978. A serious, austere reformer, Adrian VI candidly acknowledged corruption in the Roman curia and sought to curb abuses and confront both the Lutheran movement and the Ottoman threat. His reforming zeal and foreign manner made him deeply unpopular in Rome, and his brief twenty-month reign ended before he could achieve lasting change.
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About Utrecht
Utrecht, a city in the central Netherlands and the country's primatial see. Adrian Florensz, the future Pope Adrian VI, was born there (1459); the theologian Jacobus Arminius later studied in the region.
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- Pope Sixtus IV· 1414 CE–1484 CE
- Pope Alexander VI· 1431 CE–1503 CE
- Pope Innocent VIII· 1432 CE–1492 CE
- Pope Pius III· 1439 CE–1503 CE
- Pope Julius II· 1443 CE–1513 CE
- Girolamo Savonarola· 1452 CE–1498 CE
- Desiderius Erasmus· 1466 CE–1536 CE
- Pope Leo X· 1475 CE–1521 CE
- Martin Luther· 1483 CE–1546 CE
- Huldrych Zwingli· 1484 CE–1531 CE
- Bartolomé de las Casas· 1484 CE–1566 CE
- Pope Julius III· 1487 CE–1555 CE
- Thomas Müntzer· 1489 CE–1525 CE
- Thomas Cranmer· 1489 CE–1556 CE
- Martin Bucer· 1491 CE–1551 CE
- Ignatius of Loyola· 1491 CE–1556 CE
- William Tyndale· 1494 CE–1536 CE
- Menno Simons· 1496 CE–1561 CE
- Philip Melanchthon· 1497 CE–1560 CE
- Conrad Grebel· 1498 CE–1526 CE
- Pope Pius IV· 1499 CE–1565 CE
- Pope Marcellus II· 1501 CE–1555 CE
- Francis Xavier· 1506 CE–1552 CE
- John Calvin· 1509 CE–1564 CE
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Rulers world
- Ibrahim Lodi· –1526 CE
- Huayna Capac· –1527 CE
- Coanacochtzin· –1525 CE
- Tetlepanquetzal· –1525 CE
- Nezahualpilli· 1464 CE–1515 CE
- Moctezuma II (Xocoyotzin)· 1466 CE–1520 CE
- Sikandar Lodi· 1458 CE–1517 CE
- Selim I· 1470 CE–1520 CE
- Ferdinand II of Aragon· 1452 CE–1516 CE
- Atahualpa· –1533 CE
- Krishnadevaraya· 1471 CE–1529 CE
- Tuman bay II· –1517 CE
- Bayezid II· 1447 CE–1512 CE
- Askia Muhammad I· –1538 CE
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