swap_horiz Queen Elizabeth I Alternatives

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Emperor Akbar the Great

Akbar was the third Mughal emperor, ruling from 1556 to 1605 and extending Mughal authority across much of northern and...

Golden Age 16TH Century Mughal Timurid

9.2 Excellent

2

King Alfred the Great

King Alfred the Great (849–899) was the Anglo-Saxon King of Wessex who halted the Viking conquest of England, promoted l...

English Defender Saxon 9TH Century

9.1 Excellent

3

Sultan Suleiman I the Magnificent

Suleiman I ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1566, leading campaigns in Hungary, the Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, and...

Ottoman 16TH Century Osman Lawgiver

9.1 Excellent

4

King William I (the Conqueror)

King William I (c. 1028–1087), the Conqueror, was the Norman duke who invaded England and defeated King Harold II at the...

Medieval English Norman Conquest

8.7 Great

5

King Æthelstan

Æthelstan was king of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 and ruled a kingdom encompassing most of present-day England from 927 un...

English 10TH Century Saxon Wessex

8.4 Great

6

Shah Abbas I the Great

Abbas I ruled Safavid Iran from 1588 to 1629 and strengthened the monarchy through military, administrative, and economi...

Golden Age Persian 16TH Century Safavid

8.4 Great

7

King Gustav Vasa

Gustav Vasa was king of Sweden from 1523 to 1560 and the founder of the hereditary Vasa dynasty. He led the rebellion th...

Swedish Reformation 16TH Century Vasa

8.3 Great

8

King Cnut (Canute)

King Cnut (c. 995–1035) was a Danish king who conquered England by 1016 and ruled a North Sea empire encompassing Englan...

Danish English Viking 11TH Century

8.2 Great

9

King Henry II of England

Henry II ruled England from 1154 to 1189 and governed extensive territories in Britain and France that are often called...

12TH Century English Plantagenet Common Law

8.2 Great

10

King Henry VII

Henry VII (1457-1509) was King of England from 1485 until his death and the founder of the Tudor dynasty. He gained the...

English Tudor 15TH Century Wars Of Roses

8.1 Great

11

King Henry IV of France

King Henry IV of France (1553–1610) was the first Bourbon king, whose 1598 Edict of Nantes granted religious toleration...

French Bourbon United States 16TH Century

8.1 Great

12

Emperor Charles V

Charles V (1500-1558) was a Habsburg monarch who ruled Spain as Charles I from 1516 and served as Holy Roman Emperor fro...

Spain 16TH Century Habsburg Holy Roman

8.1 Great

13

Sultan Selim I

Selim I was sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 until his death in 1520. He defeated the Safavid army at Chaldiran in...

Expansion Grim Ottoman 16TH Century

8.1 Great

14

King Matthias Corvinus

Matthias Corvinus ruled Hungary from 1458 to 1490 and also gained authority in Moravia, Silesia, Lusatia, and parts of A...

Hungarian Renaissance 15TH Century Hunyadi

8.0 Great

15

King Sigismund I the Old

Sigismund I the Old was king of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania from 1506 until 1548, and a member of the Jagiellonia...

Polish Renaissance Golden Age 16TH Century

7.7 Good

16

King Francis I of France

King Francis I of France (1494–1547) was a Renaissance monarch who patronized Leonardo da Vinci—who spent his final year...

French Renaissance 16TH Century Patron

7.2 Good

17

King Henry VIII

King Henry VIII (1491–1547) ruled England from 1509 and is notable for breaking with the Roman Catholic Church in 1534 t...

English Tudor Reformation 16TH Century

7.1 Good

18

King James I of England

James VI of Scotland (1566-1625) became James I of England and Ireland in 1603, bringing the crowns under one monarch wh...

English 17TH Century Union Stuart

7.0 Good

19

King Edward VI

King Edward VI (1537–1553) ascended the English throne at age nine in 1547 and presided over the consolidation of the Pr...

English Tudor 16TH Century Protestant

5.8 Mediocre

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Queen Mary I of England

Queen Mary I of England (1516–1558) was the first queen regnant of England, ruling from 1553, and earned the epithet 'Bl...

English Catholic Tudor 16TH Century

4.0 Poor