Pope Leo XI
1535 CE–1605 CE · Florence
Born Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici in Florence, Leo XI belonged to the powerful Medici family and reigned less than a month in April 1605, earning the epithet Papa Lampo, the lightning pope. Before his election he had been a disciple of Philip Neri, Archbishop of Florence, and an influential papal legate to France who helped advance the reconciliation of Henry IV with Rome. His brief election, backed by French interests, reflected the era's contest between French and Spanish influence over the papacy. He fell ill after his coronation ceremonies and died on 27 April, leaving no time to shape policy.
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Florence, the capital of Tuscany in central Italy. A leading city of the Italian Renaissance, it hosted the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438-1439) that briefly reunited the Latin and Greek churches, was the city of the friar Savonarola, and produced several Medici popes.
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- Philip Melanchthon· 1497 CE–1560 CE
- Pope Pius IV· 1499 CE–1565 CE
- Pope Gregory XIII· 1502 CE–1585 CE
- Heinrich Bullinger· 1504 CE–1575 CE
- Pope St. Pius V· 1504 CE–1572 CE
- Francis Xavier· 1506 CE–1552 CE
- John Calvin· 1509 CE–1564 CE
- John Knox· 1514 CE–1572 CE
- Teresa of Ávila· 1515 CE–1582 CE
- Theodore Beza· 1519 CE–1605 CE
- Pope Innocent IX· 1519 CE–1591 CE
- Pope Sixtus V· 1521 CE–1590 CE
- Pope Urban VII· 1521 CE–1590 CE
- Pope Gregory XIV· 1535 CE–1591 CE
- Pope Clement VIII· 1536 CE–1605 CE
- John of the Cross· 1542 CE–1591 CE
- Matteo Ricci· 1552 CE–1610 CE
- Pope Paul V· 1552 CE–1621 CE
- Richard Hooker· 1554 CE–1600 CE
- Pope Gregory XV· 1554 CE–1623 CE
- Jacobus Arminius· 1559 CE–1609 CE
- Francis de Sales· 1567 CE–1622 CE
- Jakob Böhme· 1575 CE–1624 CE
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Rulers world
- Murad III· 1546 CE–1595 CE
- Maharana Pratap· 1540 CE–1597 CE
- Elizabeth I· 1533 CE–1603 CE
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi· 1537 CE–1598 CE
- Akbar the Great· 1542 CE–1605 CE
- Feodor I· 1557 CE–1598 CE
- Boris Godunov· 1552 CE–1605 CE
- Tokugawa Ieyasu· 1543 CE–1616 CE
- Naresuan the Great· 1555 CE–1605 CE
- Túpac Amaru· 1545 CE–1572 CE
- Oda Nobunaga· 1534 CE–1582 CE
- Powhatan (Wahunsenacawh)· 1547 CE–1618 CE
- Ivan IV the Terrible· 1530 CE–1584 CE
- Mehmed III· 1566 CE–1603 CE
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