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The Medieval Era
Caliphs, monks, poets, and conquerors who carried learning and power through the middle centuries.
Medieval era
Taliesin
534 CE – 599 CE
Welsh bard
Medieval era
Aneirin
525 CE – 600 CE
Brythonic (Welsh) poet; author of the Gododdin.
Medieval era
Hartmann von Aue
1160 – 1210
Leading poet of the Middle High German period
Medieval era
Gottfried von Strassburg
1180 – 1215
Medieval German poet
Medieval era
Oswald von Wolkenstein
1377 – August 2, 1445
German poet, composer, and diplomat
Medieval era
Jaufre Rudel
1000 – 1148
Prince of Blaye and troubadour
Medieval era
Comtessa de Dia
1140 – 1212
Female troubadour (fl. c. 1175 or c. 1212)
Medieval era
Sordello
1200 – 1269
Italian troubadour, poet and composer
Medieval era
Jacopone da Todi
1236 – December 25, 1306
Italian Franciscan mystic
Medieval era
Luigi Pulci
August 15, 1432 – November 11, 1484
Italian poet (1432-1484)
Medieval era
Matteo Maria Boiardo
1441 – December 19, 1494
Italian writer
Medieval era
Angelo Poliziano
July 14, 1454 – September 29, 1494
Italian classical scholar and poet (1454-1494)
Medieval era
Luca Pacioli
1445 – 1517
Italian father of accounting (*~1445 – †1517)
Medieval era
Gilles Binchois
1400 – September 20, 1460
Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer (c. 1400–1460)
Medieval era
John Dunstaple
1390 – December 24, 1453
English composer (c. 1390–1453)
Medieval era
Notker the Stammerer
840 CE – April 6, 912 CE
Benedictine monk and musician
Medieval era
Adam de la Halle
1237 – 1288
French poet, composer and trouvère
Medieval era
Juan Ruiz
1283 – 1350
14th century Castilian poet
Medieval era
Don Juan Manuel
May 5, 1282 – c. 1400
Spanish prince and writer (1282-1348)
Medieval era
Gonzalo de Berceo
1196 – 1260
13th-century Castilian poet
Medieval era
William IX, Duke of Aquitaine
October 22, 1071 – February 10, 1126
Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitou
Medieval era
Bernart de Ventadorn
c. 1140 – c. 1190
12th-century troubador
Medieval era
Bertran de Born
1140 – 1215
Occitan troubadour
Medieval era
Suger of Saint-Denis
1080 – January 13, 1151
French abbot-statesmen, historian and the influential first patron of Gothic architecture (1080-1151)
Medieval era
Guillaume de Lorris
1200 – 1238
French scholar and poet from Lorris (1200–1238)
Medieval era
Jean de Meun
1240 – 1305
French author (1240–1305)
Medieval era
Philippe de Commines
1447 – October 28, 1511
Writer and diplomat (1447-1511)
Medieval era
Jean Gerson
December 13, 1363 – July 12, 1429
French academic (1363/1369–1429)
Medieval era
Nicolas Flamel
1330 – March 22, 1418
French scrivener
Medieval era
Dirk Bouts
1415 – May 6, 1475
15th-century Dutch painter
Medieval era
Pisanello
1395 – 1455
Italian artist (1395–1455)
Medieval era
Paolo Uccello
June 15, 1397 – December 10, 1475
Italian painter (1397-1475)
Medieval era
Andrea del Verrocchio
1435 – 1488
15th century Italian sculptor, goldsmith and painter (c.1435-1488)
Medieval era
Domenico Ghirlandaio
June 2, 1448 – January 11, 1494
Italian Renaissance painter from Florence (1448–1494)
Medieval era
Pietro Perugino
1448 – 1523
Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school (1448–1523)
Medieval era
Gentile Bellini
1429 – February 23, 1507
Italian painter of the renaissance (1429–1507)
Medieval era
Aldus Manutius
1449 – February 6, 1515
Italian printer and humanist (1449-1515)
Medieval era
Beatrice Portinari
1266 – 1290
Dante's muse
Medieval era
Hereward the Wake
1032 – 1072
11th-century leader of local resistance to the Norman conquest of England
Medieval era
Ivar the Boneless
b. c. 900 CE
King of Jorvik
Medieval era
Egil Skallagrimsson
910 CE – 990 CE
Viking Age poet, warrior and farmer
Medieval era
Freydis Eiriksdottir
b. 980 CE
Daughter of Erik the Red
Medieval era
Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir
c. 1000 – c. 1100
Icelandic explorer
Medieval era
Jeanne de Clisson
1300 – 1359
Breton privateer
Medieval era
Caterina Sforza
1463 – May 28, 1509
Lady of Imola and Countess of Forlì (1463-1509)
Medieval era
Isabella d'Este
May 18, 1474 – February 13, 1539
Italian noble (1474-1539)
Medieval era
Jacques Coeur
1395 – November 25, 1456
French merchant, one of the founders of the trade between France and the Levant
Medieval era
Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici
1360 – February 20, 1429
Italian banker
Medieval era
John Hawkwood
1321 – 1394
English condottiero
Medieval era
Margaret Beaufort
May 31, 1443 – June 29, 1509
Noblewoman; Mother of King Henry VII
Medieval era
Agnes Sorel
1422 – February 18, 1450
French Royal mistress (1422-1450)
Medieval era
Matilda of Tuscany
1046 – July 24, 1115
Canossian dynasty countess of Tuscany (c.1046–1115)
Medieval era
Eleanor of Castile
1241 – November 28, 1290
Infanta of Castile and queen consort of England
Medieval era
Philippa of Hainault
June 24, 1310 – August 15, 1369
Queen consort of King Edward III of England
Medieval era
Katherine Swynford
November 25, 1350 – May 10, 1403
Third wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
Medieval era
Chevalier de Bayard
1476 – April 30, 1524
French military personnel
Medieval era
Ulrich von Liechtenstein
c. 1200 – January 26, 1275
Austrian poet and nobleman
Medieval era
Bartolomeo Colleoni
1400 – November 2, 1475
Italian condottiero
Medieval era
Gattamelata
1370 – January 16, 1443
Italian mercenary (1370–1443)
Medieval era
Muzio Attendolo Sforza
May 28, 1369 – January 4, 1424
Italian condottiero