16th-century Roman Catholics

Italian polymath (1564-1642)

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6March 147518February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence but was mostly active in Rome from his 30s onwards. His work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art. Michelangelo's creative abilities and mastery in a range of artistic arenas define him as an archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and elder contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci. Given the sheer volume of survivin

Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael ( , ), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

16th-century French writer and humanist (1494–1553)

Spanish playwright and poet (1562-1635)

Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 to 1556 (1500–1558)

Michel de Nostredame (December 1503 – July 1566), usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les Prophéties (published in 1555), a collection of 942 poetic quatrains allegedly predicting future events.

Henry VIII was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. After the Pope refused to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, Henry passed legislation that severed England and Ireland from the Roman Catholic Church and established the monarch as Supreme Head of the Church of England, initiating the English Reformation. He subsequently married five more times; two marriages were annulled, and two wives were executed.

16th-century Portuguese poet

Portuguese military commander and explorer (c.1467/8 – c.1521)

French judge, writer and philosopher

fifth wife of Henry VIII of England

Florentine sculptor and goldsmith (1500–1571)

Spanish Baroque lyric poet (1561-1627)

Andalusian author

German humanist and satirist

nobleman from Quercy, having belonged to the order of the Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem of which he was Grand Prior of Saint-Gilles (Langue de Provence) from 1556 to 1557 then Grand Master from 1557 to 1568

duke of Parma and Piacenza, lived (1545-1592); duke of Castro, man of government and military in the service of Spain

English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer (1563–1626)

Italian philosopher (1462 – 1525)

Italian painter (1535–1607)

Croatian national poet and European humanist

Portuguese writer (1465-1536)

Italian scholar, physician and philosopher (1484-1558)

Portuguese explorer and writer (1509–1583)

Duke of Parma (1503-1547)

founder of Bogotá

Portuguese noble (1505-1538)

illegitimate son of King Matthias of Hungary and Ban of Croatia, Presumptive crown prince of Hungary (1473-1504)

Dutch admiral (1524-1568)

English herbalist and botanist (1567-1650)

member of the Akechi family during the Sengoku period

English politician and nobleman (1536–1572)

painter

Italian chef

English conspirator

Czech poet, traveller, humanist and satiricist

English conspirator

English poet, playwright, and religious writer

daughter of Anthony Beaumont of Glenfield, Leicestershire

King of Dun na nGall

Queen of Kandy

Chancellor of the University of Oxford; English earl (1512-1580)

engraver and painter (1553-1615)

Catholic executed for involvement in UK 1605 Gunpowder plot

English Earl

Italian painter (1480-1553)

English poet

Abraham Bzowski (Bzovius) (1567–1637) was a Polish Dominican historian. He carried on the work of Baronius. The Catholic Encyclopedia calls his contributions for 1198 to 1571 "less notable" than some of other continuators, namely Raynaldus, Laderchi, and August Theiner.

English conspirator and poet

members of the Gunpowder Plot

French jurist, theologian and historian (1520-1573)

English criminal

English noblewoman

British noble (1538-1612)

(1578–1606) English conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605

English peer (1564-1619)

Co-ruler of Oldenburg

Members of the Gunpowder plot