Notables - 500 AD - 1700 AD
Assessment
Middle Ages and Renaissance with some transition within the Baroque Era
Interview at least 40 of the Notables and try to balance the eras with 15 Middle Age Notable, 15 Renaissance Notables, and 10 Baroque Notables. Also try to balance with female/male notables and different categories, and different locations in the world.
Years Notable Era & Location
(Middle Ages
Renaissance
Baroque)
         Accomplishments/Best        Known for 
Category 
artist, political theorists, ruler, religion, female leader, explorer, etc.. list as many categories as appropriate for each notable.
Best personality feature of Notable
483 - 565 Justinian
 
     
504-548 Theodora
 
     
540-604 Pope Gregory I
 
     
625 - 705 Empress Wu
 
     
742 - 814 Charlemagne
 
     
c. 950-1001 Eric Thorvaldsson (the Red)
 
     
978- c. 1025 Murasaki Shikibu (Lady)
  
     
1027 - 1087 William the Conqueror  
 
     
c. 1031 - 1083 Matilda of Flanders
 
     
1043 - 1099 El Cid (Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar)
  
     
1122 - 1204 Eleanor of Aquitaine   
 
     
1133 - 1189 Henry II (Plantangenet)
  
     
1138 - 1193 Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf bin Ayub)   
 
     
1147-1199 Minamoto Yoritomo
    
     
1155-1190  Frederick I Barbarossa
    
     
1157 - 1199 King Richard the Lionheart   
 
     
1162 - 1227 Genghis (Chingis) Khan
  
     
1214 - 1294 Kublai Khan   
 
     
1254-1324 Marco Polo
 
     
1272-1305 William Wallace
  
     
1274-1329 Robert the Bruce
    
     
1292-1358 Isabella - France & England 
  
     
1347 - 1380 St. Catherine Siena
 
     
1394 - 1460 Henry the Navigator (Prince Henry)
  
     
1398 - 1468 Johann Gutenberg
  
     
1401 - 1437 Catherine of Valois (France)
  
     
1412-1431 Joan of Arc   
  
     
1430 - 1477 Vlad Tepes 
(the Impaler)

  
     
1430 - 1482 Margaret Anjou   
 
     
1451 - 1504 Isabella - Spain
  
     
1452 - 1516 Ferdinand II - Spain
 
     
1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci
  
     
1469-1527 Nicolo Machiavelli
  
     
1473-1566 Nicolaus Copernicus
  
     
1474 - 1539 Isabella de 'Este
  
     
1475-1564 Michelangelo Buonarroti
  
     
1476-1507 Caesar Borgia
  
     
1480-1519 Lucrezia Borgia
  
     
1483-1520 Raphael 
(Raffaelo Sanzio)

  
     
1483-1546 Martin Luther
  
     
1485-1536 Catherine of Aragon   
 
     
1491-1547 Henry VIII   
   
     
1503-1566 Michael de Nostradamus
  
     
1507-1535 Anne Boleyn
  
     
1509-1564 John Calvin
  
     
1509-1537 Jane Seymour
  
     
1512-1548 Catherine Parr
  
     
1515-1557- Anne of Cleves
  
     
1516-1567 Mary Tudor (Mary I) 
  
     
1519-1589 Catherine de Medici
  
     
c. 1520 -1558 Roxelana(also known as Khurema & Rossa)
  
     
1521-1542 Catherine Howard
  
     
1530-1584 Ivan IV 
(Ivan the Terrible)

  
     
1532-1588 Lord Dudley
  
     
1533-1603 Elizabeth Tudor - (Elizabeth I)
  
     
1537-1554 Lady Jane Grey    
 
     
1542-1588 Mary Stuart - Mary Queen of Scots   
 
     
1542-1605 Akbar (Jalalu-d din Muhammad Akbar)  
 
     
1546-1616 Miguel Cervantes   
 
     
1564-1616 William Shakespeare   
 
     
1564-1642 Galileo Galilei
  
     
1566-1625 James I - England
  
     
1585-1642 Cardinal Richelieu
 
     
1599-1658 Oliver Cromwell
 
     
1606-1669 Rembrandt van Rijn
 
     
1625-1649 Charles Stuart - Charles I
 
     
1638-1715 Louis XIV - France
 
     
1642-1727 Isaac Newton
 
     
1645-1701 William Kid
 
     
1662-1694 Mary Stuart - Mary II
 
     
1671-1734 Rob Roy (MacGregor)
 
     
Define or explain
List some of the unique accomplishments of a notable who lived during the Middle Ages.
 
 

What do you notice about the dates that the notable lived, where the notable lived and the era from which he came? Could a person live in one part of the world and be in the Middle Ages and on the same dates, live in another part of the world and be in the Renaissance?
 
 
 

Where do you think the Renaissance began?
 
 
 

Other than being part of the Renaissance, what is a "Renaissance Man"?
 
 
 
 

If the Renaissance was a period of "rebirth" and Greek and Roman cultures were being reborn, look at the accomplishments of notables from the Baroque Era and tell what is distinctive (what happens that is different? What do the notables do to make change) about the last of these three eras?