Middle Ages People
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- Charlemamagne
- King of the Franks and Emperor of Rome
- William the Conqueror
- Norman King who defeated Harold, the Anglo Saxon King to become first Norman king of England
- King John I
- King of England that signed the Magna Carta giving more rights to British nobles
- Benedict
- Italian monk founder of the Benedictine order
- Francis of Assisi
- Italian monk ...devoted his life to serving the poor and the sick..founded the Franciscan order
- Pope Urban II
- Called for the first crusade to reclaim Jerusalem from the Muslims
- Lorenzo Medici
- Ruler of Florence during the Renaissance and patron of artists such as Michelangelo
- Petrarach
- Italian Renaissance poet and humanist
- Michelangelo
- Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Italian Renaissance artist, inventor, and scientist
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Polish astronomer..discovered that the Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun
- Erasmus
- Dutch writer and humanist...favored reform of the Catholic Church and opposed the Protestant Reformatin
- Martin Luther
- German monk and leader of the Protestant reformation
- Johannes Gutenberg
- invented the printing press that first used movable type...German printer
- King Henry the VIII
- King of England and founder of the Church of England....broke with the Catholic Church because the Pope would not give him a divorce
- Queen Elizabeth I
- English Renaissance flourished under her reign
- William Shakespeare
- English dramatist and poet...consdered one of the greatest writers of the English language