List of state leaders in 1501
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Africa

  • Akan state
    Akan people
    The Akan people are an ethnic group found predominately in Ghana and The Ivory Coast. Akans are the majority in both of these countries and overall have a population of over 20 million people.The Akan speak Kwa languages-Origin and ethnogenesis:...

     of Twifo-Heman
    - Ofusu Kwabi (c. 1500-c. 1520)
  • Buganda
    Buganda
    Buganda is a subnational kingdom within Uganda. The kingdom of the Ganda people, Buganda is the largest of the traditional kingdoms in present-day Uganda, comprising all of Uganda's Central Region, including the Ugandan capital Kampala, with the exception of the disputed eastern Kayunga District...

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    1. Kiggala
      Kiggala of Buganda
      Kiggala Sewannaku Mukaabya Kasungubu was Kabaka of the Kingdom of Buganda. He reigned from 1434 until 1464 and from 1484 until 1494. He was the fifth Kabaka of Buganda.-Claim to the throne:...

      , King of Buganda
      Kabaka of Buganda
      Kabaka is the title of the king of the Kingdom of Buganda. According to the traditions of the Baganda they are ruled by two kings, one spiritual and the other material....

       (c. 1474-c. 1501)
    2. Kiyimba
      Kiyimba of Buganda
      Ntege Kiyimba was Kabaka of the Kingdom of Buganda. He reigned between 1464 and 1484. He was the sixth Kabaka of Buganda.-Claim to the throne:...

      , King of Buganda
      Kabaka of Buganda
      Kabaka is the title of the king of the Kingdom of Buganda. According to the traditions of the Baganda they are ruled by two kings, one spiritual and the other material....

       (c. 1501)
  • Empire of Ethiopia - Na'od
    Na'od
    Na'od was of Ethiopia, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the second son of Baeda Maryam and his second wife Kalyupe , and was born at Gabarge....

     (1494–1508)
    • Adal Sultanate
      Adal Sultanate
      The Adal Sultanate or the Kingdom of Adal was a medieval multi-ethnic Muslim state located in the Horn of Africa.-Overview:...

      - Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din
      Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din
      Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din was a Sultan of the Sultanate of Adal. Sihab ad-Din Ahmad states in his Futuh al-Habasa that he was the son of Azhar, the second son of Abu Bakr, one of the ten sons of Sa'ad ad-Din II, and ruled for 30 years....

       (1488–1518)
  • Kongo - João I
    João I of Kongo
    João I of Kongo, alias Nzinga a Nkuwu or Nkuwu Nzinga, was ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo between 1470–1506. He was baptized as João in 3 May 1491 by Portuguese missionaries.-Early reign:...

    , Manikongo
    Manikongo
    The Manikongo or MweneKongo was the title of the rulers of the Kingdom of Kongo, a kingdom that existed from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries and consisted of land in present-day Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo...

     (bef.1482–1505)
  • Rwanda
    Rwanda
    Rwanda or , officially the Republic of Rwanda , is a country in central and eastern Africa with a population of approximately 11.4 million . Rwanda is located a few degrees south of the Equator, and is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

    - Cyirima I, King of Rwanda (c. 1428-c. 1506)
  • Songhai Empire
    Songhai Empire
    The Songhai Empire, also known as the Songhay Empire, was a state located in western Africa. From the early 15th to the late 16th century, Songhai was one of the largest Islamic empires in history. This empire bore the same name as its leading ethnic group, the Songhai. Its capital was the city...

    - Askia Mohammad I
    Askia Mohammad I
    Askia the Great was a Soninke emperor of the Songhai Empire in the late 15th century, the successor of Sunni Ali Ber. Askia Muhammad strengthened his country and made it the largest country in West Africa's history...

    , Askia of the Songhai Empire (1493–1528)

Americas

  • Aztec Empire
    Aztec
    The Aztec people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the late post-classic period in Mesoamerican chronology.Aztec is the...

    - Auitzotl
    Auítzotl
    Ahuizotl was the eighth Aztec ruler, the Hueyi Tlatoani, of the city of Tenochtitlan. He was responsible for much of the expansion of the Mexica domain, and consolidated the empire's power after emulating his predecessor...

     (1486–1502)
  • Inca Empire
    Inca Empire
    The Inca Empire, or Inka Empire , was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political and military center of the empire was located in Cusco in modern-day Peru. The Inca civilization arose from the highlands of Peru sometime in the early 13th century...

    - Huayna Capac
    Huayna Capac
    Huayna Capac was the eleventh Sapa Inca of the Inca Empire and sixth of the Hanan dynasty. He was the successor to Tupac Inca Yupanqui.-Name:In Quechua, his name is spelled Wayna Qhapaq, and in Southern Quechua, it is Vaina Ghapakh...

     (1493–1527)
  • Texcoco - Nezahualpilli
    Nezahualpilli
    Nezahualpilli was ruler of the Mesoamerican city-state of Texcoco, elected by the city's nobility after the death of his father, Nezahualcoyotl, in 1472....

    , King of Texcoco (1472–1515)

Asia

  • Ahmadnagar
    Ahmadnagar
    Ahmadnagar is located in Gujranwala DistricTt, Punjab, Pakistan.-References:...

    - Ahmad Shah I, Nizam of Ahmadnagar (1490–1509)
  • Ava Kingdom
    Ava Kingdom
    The Ava Kingdom was the dominant kingdom that ruled upper Burma from 1364 to 1555. Founded in 1364, the kingdom was the successor state to the petty kingdoms that had ruled central Burma since the collapse of Pagan Empire in the late 13th century...

    (Burma) - Minhkaung II (1481–1502)
  • Ayutthaya Kingdom
    Ayutthaya kingdom
    Ayutthaya was a Siamese kingdom that existed from 1350 to 1767. Ayutthaya was friendly towards foreign traders, including the Chinese, Vietnamese , Indians, Japanese and Persians, and later the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and French, permitting them to set up villages outside the walls of the...

    (Siam) - Rama T'ibodi II (1491–1529)
  • Bahmani Sultanate
    Bahmani Sultanate
    The Bahmani Sultanate was a Muslim state of the Deccan in southern India and one of the great medieval Indian kingdoms...

    - Muhammad Shah IV (1482–1518)
  • Sultanate of Bengal
    Sultanate of Bengal
    The Sultanate of Bengal was a state that existed from the 14th through the 16th centuries. It was eventually absorbed into the Mughal fold. The Sultanate was ruled by a series of dynasties with both local and foreign origins.-Origins:...

    - Aladdin Husain (1494–1518)
  • Berar Sultanate
    Berar Sultanate
    -Berar in Ancient History:Subah Berar and Gondwana the Vidarbha region known as Gulshan-e-Berar in medieval period since Khilji dynasty to mughal period according Aine-Akbari and Alimgeer Namah report the berar is hole Fourteen sarkar...

    - Fath-Allah 'Imad ul-Mulk (1490–1504)
  • Bidar Sultanate
    Bidar Sultanate
    Bidar sultanate was one of the Deccan sultanates of late medieval India. Its founder, Qasim Barid was a Turk, domiciled in Georgia. He joined the service of the Bahmani sultan Muhammad Shah III. He started his career as a sar-naubat but later became the mir-jumla of the Bahmani sultanate...

    - Qasim Shah I (1492–1504)
  • Bijapur Sultanate - Yusuf Adil Shah
    Yusuf Adil Shah
    Yusuf Adil Shah , referred as Adil Khan or Hidalcão by the Portuguese, was the founder of the Adil Shahi dynasty that ruled the Sultanate of Bijapur for nearly two centuries...

     (1490–1510)
  • Cambodia
    Cambodia
    Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...

    - Sri Sukonthor, King of Cambodia
    King of Cambodia
    The King of Cambodia is the head of state of the Kingdom of Cambodia. The King's power is limited to that of a symbolic figurehead to whom people are to give love and respect...

     (1486–1512)
  • Ceylon - Parakramabahu VIII, King of Ceylon (1484–1508)
  • Chiang Mai
    Chiang Mai
    Chiang Mai sometimes written as "Chiengmai" or "Chiangmai", is the largest and most culturally significant city in northern Thailand. It is the capital of Chiang Mai Province , a former capital of the Kingdom of Lanna and was the tributary Kingdom of Chiang Mai from 1774 until 1939. It is...

    - Müang Kaeo, King of Chiang Mai (1495–1526)
  • China (Ming Dynasty
    Ming Dynasty
    The Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...

    ) - Hongzhi Emperor
    Hongzhi Emperor
    The Hongzhi Emperor was emperor of the Ming dynasty in China between 1487 and 1505. Born Zhu Youcheng , he was the son of the Chenghua Emperor and his reign as emperor of China is called the Hongzhi...

     (1487–1505)
  • Delhi
    Delhi Sultanate
    The Delhi Sultanate is a term used to cover five short-lived, Delhi based kingdoms or sultanates, of Turkic origin in medieval India. The sultanates ruled from Delhi between 1206 and 1526, when the last was replaced by the Mughal dynasty...

    - Sikandar Lodi, Sultan of Delhi (1489–1517)
  • Đại Việt (Viet Nam) Later Lê Dynasty - Lê Hiến Tông
    Lê Hiển Tông
    Lê Hiển Tông , born Lê Duy Hiệu, was the second-last king of Vietnamese Lê Dynasty. He reigned from 1740 to 1786 and was succeeded by his grandson Lê Duy Kỳ.-References:...

    , Emperor of Vietnam (1497–1504)
  • Sultanate of Gujarat - Mahmud Shah I (1458–1511)
  • Japan (Sengoku period)
    Sengoku period
    The or Warring States period in Japanese history was a time of social upheaval, political intrigue, and nearly constant military conflict that lasted roughly from the middle of the 15th century to the beginning of the 17th century. The name "Sengoku" was adopted by Japanese historians in reference...

    • Monarch - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara
      Emperor Go-Kashiwabara
      Emperor Go-Kashiwabara was the 104th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. He reigned from November 16, 1500 to May 19, 1526. His personal name was Katsuhito...

       (1500–1526)
    • Shogun
      Shogun
      A was one of the hereditary military dictators of Japan from 1192 to 1867. In this period, the shoguns, or their shikken regents , were the de facto rulers of Japan though they were nominally appointed by the emperor...

       (Ashikaga
      Ashikaga shogunate
      The , also known as the , was a Japanese feudal military regime, ruled by the shoguns of the Ashikaga clan.This period is also known as the Muromachi period and gets its name from Muromachi Street of Kyoto where the third shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu established his residence...

      ) - Ashikaga Yoshizumi
      Ashikaga Yoshizumi
      was the 11th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1494 to 1508 during the Muromachi period of Japan. He was the son of Ashikaga Masatomo and grandson of the sixth shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori. Yoshizumi was first called Yoshitō , then Yoshitaka.Yoshizumi was adopted by the 8th shogun...

       (1494–1508)
  • Sultanate of Kedah - Mohammed Jiwa Zainal al-Abidin I (1472–1506)
  • Korea (Joseon Dynasty)
    Joseon Dynasty
    Joseon , was a Korean state founded by Taejo Yi Seong-gye that lasted for approximately five centuries. It was founded in the aftermath of the overthrow of the Goryeo at what is today the city of Kaesong. Early on, Korea was retitled and the capital was relocated to modern-day Seoul...

    - Yeonsangun
    Yeonsangun of Joseon
    Yeonsan-gun , born Yi Yung, was the 10th king of Korea's Joseon Dynasty. He was the eldest son of Seongjong by his second wife, Lady Yoon. He is often considered the worst tyrant in Joseon Dynasty, notorious for launching two bloody purges of the seonbi elite...

     (1494–1506)
  • Lan Xang
    Lan Xang
    The Lao kingdom of Lan Xang Hom Kao was established in 1354 by Fa Ngum.Exiled as an infant to Cambodia, Prince Fa Ngum of Xieng Dong Xieng Thong married a daughter of the Khmer king. In 1349 he set out from Angkor at the head of a 10,000-man army to establish his own country...

    (Vientiane
    Vientiane
    -Geography:Vientiane is situated on a bend of the Mekong river, which forms the border with Thailand at this point.-Climate:Vientiane features a tropical wet and dry climate with a distinct monsoon season and a dry season. Vientiane’s dry season spans from November through March. April marks the...

    ) - Visunarat
    Visunarat
    Visunarat was the king of Lan Xang from 1500 until 1520.seventh son of King Sai Tia Kaphut, King of Lan Xang. Appointed as Governor of Vientiane 1480. Appointed as Chief Minister with the title of Phya Sena Muang in 1491 with the reign name of Visun . Served as Regent for his minor nephew,...

    , King of Lan Xang (1500–1520)
  • Sultanate of Malacca - Mahmud Shah I (1488–1510)
  • Malwa Sultanate
    Malwa Sultanate
    The Malwa Sultanate was a late medieval independent kingdom in the Malwa region of the present day Madhya Pradesh state in India in 1392–1562.-History:For earlier history, see article Malwa....

    - Nasr Shah (1500–1511)
  • Multan
    Multan
    Multan , is a city in the Punjab Province of Pakistan and capital of Multan District. It is located in the southern part of the province on the east bank of the Chenab River, more or less in the geographic centre of the country and about from Islamabad, from Lahore and from Karachi...

    - Husseyn Langah I, King of Multan (1456–1502)
  • Orissa
    Orissa
    Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...

    - Prataparudra, King of Orissa (1497–1540)
  • Sultanate of Pahang - Mansur I (1475–1519)
  • Hanthawaddy Kingdom
    Hanthawaddy Kingdom
    The Hanthawaddy Kingdom was the dominant kingdom that ruled lower Burma from 1287 to 1539. The Mon-speaking kingdom was founded as Ramannadesa by King Wareru following the collapse of the Pagan Empire in 1287 as a nominal vassal state of Sukhothai Kingdom, and of the Mongol Yuan dynasty...

    - Binnya Ran II
    Binnya Ran II
    Binnya Ran II was the 17th king of Hanthawaddy for 34 years from 1492 to 1526. He was revered for his gentleness although his first act as king was to enforce the massacre of the kinsmen, putting all the royal offspring to death....

     (1492–1526)
  • Ryūkyū Kingdom
    Ryukyu Kingdom
    The Ryūkyū Kingdom was an independent kingdom which ruled most of the Ryukyu Islands from the 15th century to the 19th century. The Kings of Ryūkyū unified Okinawa Island and extended the kingdom to the Amami Islands in modern-day Kagoshima Prefecture, and the Sakishima Islands near Taiwan...

    - Shō Shin
    Sho Shin
    ' was a king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, the third of the line of the Second Shō Dynasty. Shō Shin's long reign has been described as "the Great Days of Chūzan", a period of great peace and relative prosperity. He was the son of Shō En, the founder of the dynasty, by Yosoidon, Shō En's second wife,...

     (1477–1526)
  • Sindh
    Sindh
    Sindh historically referred to as Ba'ab-ul-Islam , is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. It is also locally known as the "Mehran". Though Muslims form the largest religious group in Sindh, a good number of Christians, Zoroastrians and Hindus can...

    - Firuz Salah ud-Din, Sultan of Sindh (1492–1521)
  • Taungoo
    Taungoo
    -Administration:*Taungoo District Peace and Development Council - List of Six Townships*Taungoo Township Peace and Development Council*Taungoo Ward Peace and Development Council - 22 Wards*Taungoo Municipal*District and Township Immigration Dept...

    (Burma) - Minkyinyo, King of Taungoo (1486–1531)
  • Vijayanagara Empire
    Vijayanagara Empire
    The Vijayanagara Empire , referred as the Kingdom of Bisnaga by the Portuguese, was an empire based in South Indian in the Deccan Plateau region. It was established in 1336 by Harihara I and his brother Bukka Raya I of the Yadava lineage. The empire rose to prominence as a culmination of attempts...

    - Immadi Narasimha (1491–1505)

Europe

  • Andorra
    Andorra
    Andorra , officially the Principality of Andorra , also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra, , is a small landlocked country in southwestern Europe, located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France. It is the sixth smallest nation in Europe having an area of...

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    • Pere de Cardona, Bishop of Urgell and Co-Prince of Andorra (1472–1515)
    • Catherine
      Catherine of Navarre
      Catherine was Queen of Navarre , duchess of Gandia, Montblanc, and Peñafiel, countess of Foix, Bigorre, and Ribagorza, and viscountess of Béarn.- Biography :...

      , Queen of Navarre, Countess of Foix and Co-Princess of Andorra (1483–1516)
  • Kingdom of Aragon
    Kingdom of Aragon
    The Kingdom of Aragon was a medieval and early modern kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula, corresponding to the modern-day autonomous community of Aragon, in Spain...

    - Ferdinand II the Catholic
    Ferdinand II of Aragon
    Ferdinand the Catholic was King of Aragon , Sicily , Naples , Valencia, Sardinia, and Navarre, Count of Barcelona, jure uxoris King of Castile and then regent of that country also from 1508 to his death, in the name of...

     and King of Valencia, Count of Barcelona (1479–1516)
  • Crown of Castile
    Crown of Castile
    The Crown of Castile was a medieval and modern state in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accession of the then King Ferdinand III of Castile to the vacant Leonese throne...

    - Isabella I
    Isabella I of Castile
    Isabella I was Queen of Castile and León. She and her husband Ferdinand II of Aragon brought stability to both kingdoms that became the basis for the unification of Spain. Later the two laid the foundations for the political unification of Spain under their grandson, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor...

     (1474–1504)
  • Crimean Khanate
    Crimean Khanate
    Crimean Khanate, or Khanate of Crimea , was a state ruled by Crimean Tatars from 1441 to 1783. Its native name was . Its khans were the patrilineal descendants of Toqa Temür, the thirteenth son of Jochi and grandson of Genghis Khan...

    - Meñli I Giray
    Meñli I Giray
    Meñli I Giray , also spelled as Mengli I Giray, was a khan of the Crimean Khanate and the sixth son of the khanate founder Haci I Giray....

     (1478–1515)
  • Kingdom of Denmark and Norway - Hans (1481–1513), King of Sweden (1497–1501)
    • Duchy of Schleswig - Frederick I
      Frederick I of Denmark
      Frederick I of Denmark and Norway was the King of Denmark and Norway. The name is also spelled Friedrich in German, Frederik in Danish, and Fredrik in Swedish and Norwegian...

       (1490–1533) and John I (1481–1513) in condominial rule
  • Kingdom of England
    Kingdom of England
    The Kingdom of England was, from 927 to 1707, a sovereign state to the northwest of continental Europe. At its height, the Kingdom of England spanned the southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain and several smaller outlying islands; what today comprises the legal jurisdiction of England...

    - Henry VII
    Henry VII of England
    Henry VII was King of England and Lord of Ireland from his seizing the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death on 21 April 1509, as the first monarch of the House of Tudor....

     (1485–1509)
  • Kingdom of France
    Kingdom of France
    The Kingdom of France was one of the most powerful states to exist in Europe during the second millennium.It originated from the Western portion of the Frankish empire, and consolidated significant power and influence over the next thousand years. Louis XIV, also known as the Sun King, developed a...

    - Louis XII
    Louis XII of France
    Louis proved to be a popular king. At the end of his reign the crown deficit was no greater than it had been when he succeeded Charles VIII in 1498, despite several expensive military campaigns in Italy. His fiscal reforms of 1504 and 1508 tightened and improved procedures for the collection of taxes...

     (1498–1515)
    • Lordship (seigneurie) of Albret - Alain I
      Alain I of Albret
      Alain I of Albret , called "The Great", was a powerful French aristocrat. He was 16th Lord of Albret, Viscount of Tartas, the 2nd Count of Graves, and the Count of Castres. He was the son of Catherine de Rohan and Jean I of Albret...

       (1471–1522)
    • Duchy of Alençon - Charles IV
      Charles IV of Alençon
      Charles IV of Alençon was the son of René of Alençon and the Blessed Margaret of Vaudémont.He succeeded his father in 1492 as Duke of Alençon and Count of Perche, and was also Count of Armagnac, Fézensac, Viscount of Rodez, Count of Fezensaguet, l'Isle-Jourdain, and Perdiac.In 1509 he married...

       (1492–1525)
    • County of Armagnac - Margaret (1481–1549)
    • Bourbon
      Bourbonnais
      Bourbonnais was a historic province in the centre of France that corresponded to the modern département of Allier, along with part of the département of Cher. Its capital was Moulins.-History:...

      - Peter II, Duke of Bourbon
      Peter II, Duke of Bourbon
      Peter II, Duke of Bourbon was the son of Charles I, Duke of Bourbon and Agnes of Burgundy, and a member of the House of Bourbon...

       (1488–1503) and Count of Marche
      County of Marche
      The County of Marche was a medieval French county, approximately corresponding to the modern département of Creuse.Marche first appeared as a separate fief about the middle of the 10th century, when William III, Duke of Aquitaine, gave it to one of his vassals named Boso, who took the title of...

       (1477–1503)
    • Duchy of Brittany - Anne
      Anne of Brittany
      Anne, Duchess of Brittany , also known as Anna of Brittany , was a Breton ruler, who was to become queen to two successive French kings. She was born in Nantes, Brittany, and was the daughter of Francis II, Duke of Brittany and Margaret of Foix. Her maternal grandparents were Queen Eleanor of...

       (1488–1514)
    • County of Nevers
      County of Nevers
      The County of Nevers is a historic county of Burgundy in central France. It is the location of the town, Nevers. It roughly corresponds to the later province of Nivernais and the modern of department of Nièvre.- History :...

      - Engelbert of Cleves
      Engelbert, Count of Nevers
      Engelbert of Cleves, Count of Nevers was the younger son of John I, Duke of Cleves and Elizabeth of Nevers, only surviving child of John II, Count of Nevers....

       (1491–1506)
  • Holy Roman Empire
    Holy Roman Empire
    The Holy Roman Empire was a realm that existed from 962 to 1806 in Central Europe.It was ruled by the Holy Roman Emperor. Its character changed during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, when the power of the emperor gradually weakened in favour of the princes...

    - Maximilian I
    Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
    Maximilian I , the son of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor and Eleanor of Portugal, was King of the Romans from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1493 until his death, though he was never in fact crowned by the Pope, the journey to Rome always being too risky...

    , Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria (1493–1519)
    • Anhalt-Köthen
      Anhalt-Köthen
      Anhalt-Köthen has existed on two separate occasions. The first state was created in 1396 when the Anhalt-Zerbst was partitioned between Anhalt-Dessau and Anhalt-Köthen. The first creation lasted until 1552 when it was inherited by Anhalt-Dessau....

      - Waldemar VI, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen (1471–1508)
    • County of Arenberg - Eberhard IV (1496–1531)
    • Margraviate of Baden-Baden - Christopher I
      Christopher I, Margrave of Baden-Baden
      Christopher I of Baden was a Margrave of Baden-Baden in 1475–1515.Christopher was the eldest son of Charles I, Margrave of Baden-Baden and Katharina of Austria, a sister of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor. He built the New Castle and moved there in 1479. In 1515 he divided his possessions...

       (1475–1515) (1475–1515)
    • Margraviate of Baden-Sausenberg - Philip of Hachberg-Sausenberg
      Philip of Hachberg-Sausenberg
      Margrave Philip of Hachberg-Sausenberg was the son of the Margrave Rudolf IV of Hachberg-Sausenberg and Margaret of Vienne. Philip reigned 1487-1503 as Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg and Count of Neuchâtel...

       (1487–1503)
    • Barby-Barby - Burchard IV, Count of Barby-Barby (1493–1506)
    • Barby-Ruppin - Joachim I (1500–1507)
    • Bavaria-Dachau - Sigismund
      Sigismund of Bavaria
      Sigismund of Bavaria was a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty. He ruled as Duke of Bavaria-Munich from 1460 to 1467, and then as Duke of Bavaria-Dachau until his death.-Biography:...

      , Duke of Bavaria-Dachau (1467–1501)
    • Bavaria-Landshut
      Bavaria-Landshut
      -History:The creation of the duchy was the result of the death of Emperor Louis IV the Bavarian. In the Treaty of Landsberg 1349, which divided up Louis's empire, his sons Stephen, William, and Albert were to receive jointly Lower Bavaria and the Netherlands. Four years later the inheritance was...

      - George the Rich
      George of Bavaria
      George of Bavaria referred to as the Rich , was the last Duke of Bavaria-Landshut...

      , Duke of Bavaria-Landshut (1479–1503)
    • Bavaria-Munich
      Bavaria-Munich
      -History:After the death of Stephen II in 1375, his sons Stephen III, Frederick, and John II jointly ruled Bavaria-Landshut. After seventeen years, the brothers decided to formally divide their inheritance. John received Bavaria-Munich, Stephen received Bavaria-Ingolstadt, while Frederick kept...

      - Albert IV
      Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria
      Duke Albert IV of Bavaria-Munich , , from 1467 Duke of Bavaria-Munich, from 1503 Duke of the reunited Bavaria.-Biography:...

      , Duke of Bavaria-Munich (1467–1508)
    • County of Bentheim-Bentheim - Eberwin II (1473–1530)
    • County of Bentheim-Lingen -
      • Otto (1450–1508)
      • Nicholas III (1493–1508)
    • County of Bentheim-Steinfurt - Arnold II (1498–1544)
    • County of Bentheim-Tecklenburg - Otto VIII (1493–1526)
  • Kingdom of Bohemia
    Kingdom of Bohemia
    The Kingdom of Bohemia was a country located in the region of Bohemia in Central Europe, most of whose territory is currently located in the modern-day Czech Republic. The King was Elector of Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806, whereupon it became part of the Austrian Empire, and...

    - Vladislav II (1471–1516)
    • Electorate of Brandenburg - Joachim I Nestor (1499–1535)
    • Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach - Frederick I
      Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
      Frederick I of Ansbach and Bayreuth was born at Ansbach as the eldest son of the Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg by his second wife Anna, daughter of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony. His elder half-brother was the Elector Johann Cicero of Brandenburg...

       (1486–1515) and Margrave of Bayreuth (1495–1515)
    • Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen - Johann Rode von Wale
      Johann Rode von Wale
      Johann Rode von Wale was a Catholic cleric, a Doctor of Canon and Civil Law, a chronicler, a long-serving government official and as John III Prince-archbishop of Bremen between 1497 and...

       (1497–1511)
    • Duchy of Brunswick and Lunenburg, Wolfenbüttel line
      Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
      The Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was a subdivision of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, whose history was characterised by numerous divisions and reunifications. Various dynastic lines of the House of Welf ruled Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel until the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806...

      - Henry IV
      Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
      Henry , Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, called Henry the Elder or Henry the Evil, was prince of Wolfenbüttel from 1491 until his death.-Life:...

       (1491–1514)
    • Burgundy
      Franche-Comté
      Franche-Comté the former "Free County" of Burgundy, as distinct from the neighbouring Duchy, is an administrative region and a traditional province of eastern France...

      - Philip IV the Fair
      Philip I of Castile
      Philip I , known as Philip the Handsome or the Fair, was the first Habsburg King of Castile...

      , Duke of Brabant
      Duke of Brabant
      The Duchy of Brabant was formally erected in 1183/1184. The title "Duke of Brabant" was created by the German Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in favor of Henry I, son of Godfrey III of Leuven . The Duchy of Brabant was a feudal elevation of the since 1085/1086 existing title of Landgrave of Brabant...

      , Count of Burgundy and Artois
      County of Artois
      The County of Artois was an historic province of the Kingdom of France, held by the Dukes of Burgundy from 1384 until 1477/82, and a state of the Holy Roman Empire from 1493 until 1659....

       (1482–1506)
    • County of Castell -
      • George I (1498–1528)
      • Wolfgang I (1498–1546)
    • Duchy of Cieszyn
      Duchy of Cieszyn
      The Duchy of Cieszyn or Duchy of Teschen or Duchy of Těšín was an autonomous Silesian duchy centered on Teschen in Upper Silesia. After the feudal division of Poland it was split off in 1281 and ruled by Silesian dukes from the Piast dynasty since 1290...

      - Kazimierz II (1477–1528)
    • Electorate of Cologne - Hermann IV of Hesse
      Hermann IV of Hesse
      Hermann IV of Hesse was Archbishop-Elector of Cologne from 1480 to 1508 and Prince-Bishop of Paderborn from 1498 to 1508.-Early years, 1450–1473:...

       (1480–1508)
    • Duchy of Cleves
      Duchy of Cleves
      The Duchy of Cleves was a State of the Holy Roman Empire. It was situated in the northern Rhineland on both sides of the Lower Rhine, around its capital Cleves and the town of Wesel, bordering the lands of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster in the east and the Duchy of Brabant in the west...

      –County of Mark
      - John II the Pious
      John II, Duke of Cleves
      John II, "The Pious" or "The Babymaker", Duke of Cleves, Count of Mark, was a son of John I, Duke of Cleves and Elizabeth of Nevers. He ruled Cleves from 1481 to his death in 1521...

       (1481–1521)
    • County of East Frisia
      County of East Frisia
      The County of East-Frisia was a county in the region of East Frisia in the north-west of the present day German state of Lower Saxony.-County:...

      - Edzard I, the Great
      Edzard I, Count of East Frisia
      Edzard I, also Edzard the Great, was count of East Frisia from 1491 till his death in 1528.Edzard succeeded his brother Enno in 1492. He fought with George, Duke of Saxony over Friesland and Groningen...

       (1491–1528)
    • Fürstenberg-Baar
      Fürstenberg-Baar
      Fürstenberg-Baar was a County of medieval Germany, located in southern Baden-Württemberg in the historical territory of Baar. It was created as a partition of Fürstenberg-Fürstenberg in 1441. It inherited the County of Fürstenberg-Geisingen in 1483, and Fürstenberg-Wolfach in 1490...

      - Wolfgang, Count of Fürstenberg-Baar (1499–1509)
    • Duchy of Guelders - Charles of Egmond (1492–1538)
    • Landgraviate of Hesse
      Landgraviate of Hesse
      The Landgraviate of Hesse was a Landgraviate of the Holy Roman Empire. It existed as a unity from 1264 to 1567, when it was divided between the sons of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse.-History:...

      - William II
      William II, Landgrave of Hesse
      William II was Landgrave of Lower Hesse from 1493 and Landgrave of Upper Hesse after the death of his cousin, William III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse in 1500....

       (1500–1509)
  • Ferrara
    Ferrara
    Ferrara is a city and comune in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital city of the Province of Ferrara. It is situated 50 km north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located 5 km north...

    , Modena
    Modena
    Modena is a city and comune on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy....

    and Reggio
    Reggio Emilia
    Reggio Emilia is an affluent city in northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has about 170,000 inhabitants and is the main comune of the Province of Reggio Emilia....

    - Ercole d'Este I
    Ercole d'Este I
    Ercole I d'Este was Duke of Ferrara from 1471 until 1505. He was a member of the house of Este. He was nicknamed North Wind and the Diamond.-Biography:...

    , Duke of Ferrara and Modena (1471–1505)
    • Duchy of Holstein - Frederick I
      Frederick I of Denmark
      Frederick I of Denmark and Norway was the King of Denmark and Norway. The name is also spelled Friedrich in German, Frederik in Danish, and Fredrik in Swedish and Norwegian...

       (1490–1533) and John I (1481–1513) in condominial rule
    • Isenburg-Büdingen
      Isenburg-Büdingen
      Isenburg-Büdingen was a County of southern Hesse, Germany, located in Büdingen. There were two different Counties of the same name. The first was a partition of Isenburg-Cleberg, and was partitioned into Isenburg-Büdingen-Birstein and Isenburg-Ronneburg in 1511. The second was a partition of...

      - Louis II, Count of Isenburg-Büdingen (1461–1511)
    • Königsegg
      Königsegg
      Königsegg was a German statelet of southeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Königsegg emerged in 1192 as a Lordship, and was raised to a Barony in 1470...

      - John IV, Baron of Königsegg (1500–1544)
    • Archbishopric of Magdeburg
      Archbishopric of Magdeburg
      The Archbishopric of Magdeburg was a Roman Catholic archdiocese and Prince-Bishopric of the Holy Roman Empire centered on the city of Magdeburg on the Elbe River....

      - Ernst of Saxony (1475–1513)
    • Archbishopric of Mainz
      Archbishopric of Mainz
      The Archbishopric of Mainz or Electorate of Mainz was an influential ecclesiastic and secular prince-bishopric in the Holy Roman Empire between 780–82 and 1802. In the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy, the Archbishop of Mainz was the primas Germaniae, the substitute of the Pope north of the Alps...

      - Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild
      Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild
      Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild was Archbishop of Mainz and Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 1484 to 1504.The son of George, Count of Henneberg and Johanna, daughter of Count Philipp I of Nassau-Weilburg entered the ecclesiastical profession and, after passing through its lower stages,...

       (1484–1504)
    • Marquisate of Mantua - Francesco II Gonzaga
      Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua
      Francesco II Gonzaga was the ruler of the Italian city of Mantua from 1484 until his death.-Biography:Gonzaga was born in Mantua, the son of Marquess Federico I Gonzaga. He had a career as a condottiero acting as Venice's commander from 1489 to 1498...

       (1484–1519)
    • Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin - Magnus II (1477–1503)
    • Duchy of Milan
      Duchy of Milan
      The Duchy of Milan , was created on the 1st of may 1395, when Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Lord of Milan, purchased a diploma for 100,000 Florins from King Wenceslaus. It was this diploma that installed, Gian Galeazzo as Duke of Milan and Count of Pavia...

      - Louis XII of France
      Louis XII of France
      Louis proved to be a popular king. At the end of his reign the crown deficit was no greater than it had been when he succeeded Charles VIII in 1498, despite several expensive military campaigns in Italy. His fiscal reforms of 1504 and 1508 tightened and improved procedures for the collection of taxes...

       (1500–1512)
    • Principality of Mindelheim - Georg von Frundsberg
      Georg von Frundsberg
      Georg von Frundsberg was a South German knight and Landsknecht leader in the service of the Imperial Habsburg dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire....

       (1478–1528)
    • Nassau-Weilburg - Louis I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1492–1523)
    • Nieder-Isenburg
      Nieder-Isenburg
      Nieder-Isenburg was a small mediæval County in northern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was located to the east of the town of Neuwied, due north of Vallendar....

      - James, Count of Nieder-Isenburg (1486–1503)
    • Limburg-Styrum -
      • John III, Count of Limburg-Styrum (1473–1510)
      • Adolph, Count of Limurg-Styrum (1493–1505)
    • Duchy of Lorraine - René II
      René II, Duke of Lorraine
      René II was Count of Vaudémont from 1470, Duke of Lorraine from 1473, and Duke of Bar from 1483 to 1508. He claimed the crown of the Kingdom of Naples and the County of Provence as the Duke of Calabria 1480–1493 and as King of Naples and Jerusalem 1493–1508...

      , Duke of Lorraine (1473–1508) and Duke of Bar
      Counts and dukes of Bar
      Bar was a historic duchy of both the Holy Roman Empire and the crown of France, though later totally incorporated with Lorraine into France in 1766. The duchy of Bar includes the "pays" of Barrois.- History :...

       (1483–1508)
    • Duchy of Opole
      Duchy of Opole
      Duchy of Opole was one of the duchies of Silesia ruled by the Piast dynasty. Its capital was Opole in Upper Silesia.After Bolesław I the Tall and his younger brother Mieszko I Tanglefoot backed by Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa had retained their Silesian heritage in 1163, they divided the...

      - John the Good (1476–1532)
    • Principality of Orange
      Principality of Orange
      The Principality of Orange was a feudal state in Provence, in the south of modern-day France, on the left bank of the River Rhone north of the city of Avignon....

      - John II of Châlon (1475–1502)
    • Ortenburg-Neuortenburg
      Ortenburg-Neuortenburg
      Ortenburg-Neuortenburg was a minor county and Imperial State in present-day Lower Bavaria, Germany. It was located on the lands around Ortenburg Castle, about west of Passau...

      - Ulrich II, Count of Ortenburg-Neuortenburg (1495–1524)
    • Öttingen-Wallerstein
      Öttingen-Wallerstein
      Oettingen-Wallerstein is a noble family related to a former County in modern-day eastern Baden-Württemberg and western Bavaria, Germany.Oettingen-Wallerstein was twice created; first as a partition of Oettingen in 1423 which became extinct in 1517 and was inherited by Oettingen-Oettingen, and the...

      - Louis XIII, Count of Öttingen-Wallerstein (1449–1517)
    • Electoral Palatinate - Philip
      Philip, Elector Palatine
      Philip the Upright, Elector Palatine of the Rhine was an Elector Palatine of the Rhine from the house of Wittelsbach from 1476 to 1508....

       (1476–1508)
    • Pappenheim
      Pappenheim
      Pappenheim is a town in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the river Altmühl, 11 km south of Weißenburg in Bayern.- Notable people :The architect and professor Eduard Mezger was born in Pappenheim....

      - William, Lord of Pappenheim (1482–1508)
    • Duchy of Pomerania
      Duchy of Pomerania
      The Duchy of Pomerania was a duchy in Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, ruled by dukes of the House of Pomerania ....

      - Boguxlaw X (1478–1523)
    • Runkel
      Runkel
      Runkel is a town on the Lahn River in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany.- Location :Runkel lies in the Lahn Valley on both sides of the river between the Westerwald and the Taunus, some eight kilometres east of Limburg....

      - John, Count of Runkel (1460–1521)
    • Salm-Kyrburg
      Salm-Kyrburg
      Salm-Kyrburg was a state of the Holy Roman Empire located in present-day Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, one of the various partitions of Salm. It was twice created: the first time as a Wild- and Rhinegraviate , and secondly as a Principality...

      -John VII, Wild- and Rhinegrave of Salm-Kyrburg (1499–1531)
      • Duchy of Saxony
        Duchy of Saxony
        The medieval Duchy of Saxony was a late Early Middle Ages "Carolingian stem duchy" covering the greater part of Northern Germany. It covered the area of the modern German states of Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Saxony-Anhalt and most of Schleswig-Holstein...

        Albertine branch - George
        George, Duke of Saxony
        George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony , was duke of Saxony from 1500 to 1539.Duke George was a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece.-Early life:...

         (1500–1539)
    • Saxony
      • Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg
        Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg
        The Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg between the 14th and 17th centuries), later also known as the Duchy of Lauenburg, was a reichsfrei duchy that existed 1296–1803 and 1814–1876 in the extreme southeast region of what is now Schleswig-Holstein...

        - John V
        John V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
        John V of Saxe-Lauenburg was the eldest son of Duke Bernard II of Saxe-Lauenburg and Adelheid of Pomerania-Stolp , daughter of Duke Bogislaus VIII of Pomerania-Stolp...

         (1463–1507)
      • Electorate of Saxony
        Electorate of Saxony
        The Electorate of Saxony , sometimes referred to as Upper Saxony, was a State of the Holy Roman Empire. It was established when Emperor Charles IV raised the Ascanian duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg to the status of an Electorate by the Golden Bull of 1356...

        Ernestine branch - Frederick III
        Frederick III, Elector of Saxony
        Frederick III of Saxony , also known as Frederick the Wise , was Elector of Saxony from 1486 to his death. Frederick was the son of Ernest, Elector of Saxony and his wife Elisabeth, daughter of Albert III, Duke of Bavaria...

         (1486–1525)
    • County of Sayn -
      • Gerhard III (1493–1506)
      • John IV (1498–1529)
    • Schönborn - John IV, Lord of Schönborn (1490–1529)
    • Bishopric of Sion - Mathieu Schiner (1499–1522)
    • Solms-Braunfels
      Solms-Braunfels
      Solms-Braunfels was a County in what is today the federal Land of Hesse in Germany.Solms-Braunfels was a partition of Solms, and was raised to a Principality in 1742. Solms-Braunfels was partitioned between: itself and Solms-Ottenstein in 1325; itself and Solms-Lich in 1409; and itself,...

      - Otto II, Count of Solm-Braunfels (1459–1504)
    • Stadion (state)
      Stadion (state)
      Stadion was a statelet of the Holy Roman Empire, located around Thannhausen in the present-day Bavarian administrative region of Swabia, Germany....

      - Nicholas, Lord of Stadion (1479–1507)
    • Stolberg-Stolberg
      Stolberg-Stolberg
      Stolberg-Stolberg was a county of the Holy Roman Empire located in the southern Harz region. Its capital was the town of Stolberg, now in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany....

      - Henry IX, Count of Stolberg-Stolberg (1455–1511)
    • Archbishopric of Trier
      Archbishopric of Trier
      The Archbishopric of Trier was a Roman Catholic diocese in Germany, that existed from Carolingian times until the end of the Holy Roman Empire. Its suffragans were the dioceses of Metz, Toul and Verdun. Since the 9th century the Archbishops of Trier were simultaneously princes and since the 11th...

      - Johann II of Baden (1456–1503)
    • Archbishopric of Utrecht - Frederik IV van Baden (1496–1517)
    • County of Wied -
      • William III (1487–1526)
      • John I (1487–1533)
    • Bishopric of Worms
      Bishopric of Worms
      The Bishopric of Worms was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire. Located on both banks of the Rhine around Worms just north of the union of that river with the Neckar, it was largely surrounded by the Palatinate. Worms had been the seat of a bishop from Roman times...

      - Johann II von Dalberg (1482–1503)
    • Duchy of Württemberg - Ulrich
      Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg
      Herzog Ulrich von Württemberg succeeded his kinsman Eberhard II as Duke of Württemberg in 1498, being declared of age in 1503.-Early life:...

       (1498–1519)
    • Bishopric of Würzburg
      Bishopric of Würzburg
      The Bishopric of Würzburg was a prince-bishopric in the Holy Roman Empire, located in Lower Franconia, around the city of Würzburg, Germany. Würzburg was a diocese from 743. In the 18th century, its bishop was often also Bishop of Bamberg...

      - Lorenz von Bibra
      Lorenz von Bibra
      Lorenz von Bibra, Duke in Franconia was Prince-Bishop of the Bishopric of Würzburg from 1495 to 1519. His life paralleled Maximilian I , who served as Holy Roman Emperor from 1493 to 1519, to which Lorenz did serve as an advisor....

       (1495–1519)
  • Kingdom of Hungary
    Kingdom of Hungary
    The Kingdom of Hungary comprised present-day Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia , Transylvania , Carpatho Ruthenia , Vojvodina , Burgenland , and other smaller territories surrounding present-day Hungary's borders...

    - Ladislaus II (1490–1516) and King of Bohemia (1471–1516)
  • Ireland
    • Airgíalla
      Airgíalla
      Airgíalla or Airgialla was the name of an Irish federation and Irish kingdom which first formed around the 7th century...

      - Rossa mac Maghnusa, King of Airgíalla
      Kings of Airgíalla
      Between the sixth to sixteenth centuries, The Kingdom of Airgíalla was one of the three major kingdoms that formed what is now the province of Ulster. The others were In Tuisceairt to the west, and Ulaid to the east....

       (1497–1513)
    • Breifne - Eoghan mac Tighearnain Oig, King of Breifne (1500–1528)
    • East Breifne
      East Breifne
      East Breifne was an historic kingdom of Ireland roughly corresponding to County Cavan....

      - Seaan mac Cathail, King of East Breifne (1491–1510)
    • Uí Maine - Maelsechlainn mac Tadhg O Cellaigh
      Maelsechlainn mac Tadhg Ó Cellaigh
      Maelsechlainn mac Tadhg Ó Cellaigh, King of Uí Maine, Chief of the Name,leading participant in the Battle of Knockdoe, fl. 1499-1511.-Family background:...

      , King of Uí Maine (1499–1511)
      • Síol Anmchadha
        Síol Anmchadha
        Síol Anmchadha was a sub-kingdom or lordship of Hy-Many, and ruled by an off-shoot of the Ui Maine called the Síol Anmchadha , from whom the territory took its name....

        - Breasal mac Eoghan Ua Madadhan, Lord of Síol Anmchadha
        Kings of Síol Anmchadha
        Siol Anmchada was a sub-kingdom or lordship of Uí Maine, in an area of the west of Ireland which is now part of Connacht. It was ruled by an off-shoot of the Ui Maine called the Síol Anmchadha , from whom the territory took its name...

         (1479–1526)
    • Leinster
      Leinster
      Leinster is one of the Provinces of Ireland situated in the east of Ireland. It comprises the ancient Kingdoms of Mide, Osraige and Leinster. Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the historic fifths of Leinster and Mide gradually merged, mainly due to the impact of the Pale, which straddled...

      - Muircheartach mac Donnchadh MacMurrough-Kavanagh, King of Leinster
      Kings of Leinster
      The following is a provisional list of the kings of Leinster who ruled the Irish kingdom of Leinster up to 1632 with the death of Domhnall Spainnach MacMurrough-Kavanagh, the last legitimately inaugurated head of the MacMurrough Kavanagh royal line...

       (1478–1512)
    • Moylurg
      Moylurg
      Magh Luirg or Magh Luirg an Dagda, Anglicised as Moylurg, was the name of a kingdom located in the north-east of Connacht, the western province of Ireland, from c.956-1585...

      - Cormac MacDermot, King of Moylurg
      Kings of Moylurg
      The Kings of Magh Luirg or Moylurg were a branch of the Síol Muireadaigh, and a kindred family to the Ua Conchobair Kings of Connacht. Their ancestor, Maelruanaidh Mor mac Tadg, was a brother to Conchobar mac Tadg, King of Connacht 967-973, ancestor of the O Connor family of Connacht...

       (1499–1528)
  • Principality of Moldavia - Stephen III the Great
    Stephen III of Moldavia
    Stephen III of Moldavia was Prince of Moldavia between 1457 and 1504 and the most prominent representative of the House of Mușat.During his reign, he strengthened Moldavia and maintained its independence against the ambitions of Hungary, Poland, and the...

     (1457–1504)
  • Grand Duchy of Moscow
    Grand Duchy of Moscow
    The Grand Duchy of Moscow or Grand Principality of Moscow, also known in English simply as Muscovy , was a late medieval Rus' principality centered on Moscow, and the predecessor state of the early modern Tsardom of Russia....

    - Ivan III of Russia
    Ivan III of Russia
    Ivan III Vasilyevich , also known as Ivan the Great, was a Grand Prince of Moscow and "Grand Prince of all Rus"...

     (1462–1505)
  • Kingdom of Naples
    Kingdom of Naples
    The Kingdom of Naples, comprising the southern part of the Italian peninsula, was the remainder of the old Kingdom of Sicily after secession of the island of Sicily as a result of the Sicilian Vespers rebellion of 1282. Known to contemporaries as the Kingdom of Sicily, it is dubbed Kingdom of...

    -
    1. Frederick IV
      Frederick IV of Naples
      Frederick IV , sometimes known as Frederick I or Federico d'Aragona, was the last King of Naples of the House of Trastámara, ruling from 1496 to 1501...

       (1496–1501)
    2. Louis XII of France
      Louis XII of France
      Louis proved to be a popular king. At the end of his reign the crown deficit was no greater than it had been when he succeeded Charles VIII in 1498, despite several expensive military campaigns in Italy. His fiscal reforms of 1504 and 1508 tightened and improved procedures for the collection of taxes...

       (1501–1504)
  • Kingdom of Navarre
    Kingdom of Navarre
    The Kingdom of Navarre , originally the Kingdom of Pamplona, was a European kingdom which occupied lands on either side of the Pyrenees alongside the Atlantic Ocean....

    -
    • Catherine
      Catherine of Navarre
      Catherine was Queen of Navarre , duchess of Gandia, Montblanc, and Peñafiel, countess of Foix, Bigorre, and Ribagorza, and viscountess of Béarn.- Biography :...

      , Queen of Navarre and Countess of Foix (1483–1516)
    • John III d'Albret
      John III of Navarre
      John III , also known as Jean d'Albret, was jure uxoris, King consort of the Queen regnant Catherine of Navarre.He was a son of Alain I of Albret, Lord of Albret, and his wife, Frances of Châtillon-Limoges.-King of Navarre:...

       (1484–1516)
  • Ottoman (Turkish) Empire
    Ottoman Empire
    The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

    - Beyazid II (1481–1512)
  • Papal States
    Papal States
    The Papal State, State of the Church, or Pontifical States were among the major historical states of Italy from roughly the 6th century until the Italian peninsula was unified in 1861 by the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia .The Papal States comprised territories under...

    - Pope Alexander VI
    Pope Alexander VI
    Pope Alexander VI , born Roderic Llançol i Borja was Pope from 1492 until his death on 18 August 1503. He is one of the most controversial of the Renaissance popes, and his Italianized surname—Borgia—became a byword for the debased standards of the Papacy of that era, most notoriously the Banquet...

     (1492–1503)
  • Poland-Lithuania
    Lithuania
    Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

    -
    1. Jan I Olbracht, King of Poland (1492–1501)
    2. Aleksander Jagiellon, King of Poland (1501–1506) and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1492–1506)
    • Duchy of Masovia
      Duchy of Masovia
      The Duchy of Masovia with its capital at Płock was a medieval duchy formed when the Polish Kingdom of the Piasts fragmented in 1138. It was located in the historic Masovian region of northeastern Poland...

      - Konrad III Rudy (1454–1503)
  • Kingdom of Portugal
    Kingdom of Portugal
    The Kingdom of Portugal was Portugal's general designation under the monarchy. The kingdom was located in the west of the Iberian Peninsula, Europe and existed from 1139 to 1910...

    - Manuel I
    Manuel I of Portugal
    Manuel I , the Fortunate , 14th king of Portugal and the Algarves was the son of Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu, , by his wife, Infanta Beatrice of Portugal...

     (1495–1521)
  • Knights of Rhodes - Pierre d'Aubusson
    Pierre d'Aubusson
    Pierre d'Aubusson was a Grand Master of the order of St. John of Jerusalem and a zealous opponent of the Ottoman Empire.Pierre probably joined the Knights of St...

    , Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes
    Knights Hospitaller
    The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta , also known as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta , Order of Malta or Knights of Malta, is a Roman Catholic lay religious order, traditionally of military, chivalrous, noble nature. It is the world's...

     (1476–1503)
  • Duchy of Savoy
    Duchy of Savoy
    From 1416 to 1847, the House of Savoy ruled the eponymous Duchy of Savoy . The Duchy was a state in the northern part of the Italian Peninsula, with some territories that are now in France. It was a continuation of the County of Savoy...

    - Philibert II of Savoy (1497–1504)
  • Kingdom of Scotland
    Kingdom of Scotland
    The Kingdom of Scotland was a Sovereign state in North-West Europe that existed from 843 until 1707. It occupied the northern third of the island of Great Britain and shared a land border to the south with the Kingdom of England...

    - James IV
    James IV of Scotland
    James IV was King of Scots from 11 June 1488 to his death. He is generally regarded as the most successful of the Stewart monarchs of Scotland, but his reign ended with the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Flodden Field, where he became the last monarch from not only Scotland, but also from all...

     (1488–1513)
  • Kingdom of Sweden - Sten Sture the Elder
    Sten Sture the Elder
    Sten Sture the Elder was a Swedish statesman and regent of Sweden from .-Background:...

    , Regent of Sweden (1501–1503)
  • Teutonic Order - Friedrich of Saxony, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (1497–1510)
  • Republic of Venice
    Republic of Venice
    The Republic of Venice or Venetian Republic was a state originating from the city of Venice in Northeastern Italy. It existed for over a millennium, from the late 7th century until 1797. It was formally known as the Most Serene Republic of Venice and is often referred to as La Serenissima, in...

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    1. Agostin Barbaigo, Doge of Venice (1486–1501)
    2. Leonardo Loredan, Doge of Venice (1501–1523)
    • Duchy of the Archipelago
      Duchy of the Archipelago
      The Duchy of the Archipelago or also Duchy of Naxos or Duchy of the Aegean was a maritime state created by Venetian interests in the Cyclades archipelago in the Aegean Sea, in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade, centered on the islands of Naxos and Paros.-Background and establishment of the...

      - Francesco III Crispo (1500–1511)
  • Principality of Wallachia - Radu cel Mare
    Radu cel Mare
    Radu IV the Great was a Voivode of Wallachia from September 1495 to April 1508. He succeeded his father, Vlad Călugărul, who was one of the three brothers to Vlad III the Impaler . He was married to Princess Catalina Crnojević of Zeta, and was succeeded by his first cousin Mihnea cel Rău, son to...

     (1495–1508)

Middle East and North Africa

  • Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt
    Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)
    The Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt was the final independent Egyptian state prior to the establishment of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty in 1805. It lasted from the overthrow of the Ayyubid Dynasty until the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517. The sultanate's ruling caste was composed of Mamluks, Arabised...

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    1. Janbalat (1500–1501)
    2. Tuman Bay
      Tuman bay
      Tuman bay can refer to one of the two sultans of the Mamluk Sultanate:* Al-Adil Sayf ad-Din Tuman bay I * Al-Ashraf Tuman bay II...

       (1501)
    3. Qansuh al-Ghawri (1501–1516)
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