Escapees from monasteries

8th Patriarch of Moscow (1652–1666)

Italian Renaissance painter (c. 1406–1469)

wife of Martin Luther

was a Japanese Buddhist monk and philosopher of the Kamakura period. His teachings form the basis of Nichiren Buddhism, a unique branch of Japanese Mahayana Buddhism based on the Lotus Sutra.

Italian poet and writer

8th-century European ruler

Catholic cardinal

Basque explorer, adventurer, soldier, explorer, memorialist, authorized by Pope Urban VIII to dress like a man

Duke of Hungary, Croatia and Nyitra (c.1070–1127)

German theologian

grand prince of Kyiv

monk

French noblewoman (1546-1582); third wife of William the Silent (1546-1582)

Teutberga (also spelled Theutberga; died 875) was a Frankish noblewoman and queen consort of Lothair II of Lotharingia. A member of the Bosonid dynasty, she became the central figure in one of the most politically charged marriage disputes of the 9th century. Her struggle to maintain her marriage and royal status against Lothair's efforts to annul the union became a defining case in medieval Church authority over marriage and annulment.

Chilean writer (1893-1921)

Canadian adventurer (1906-1996)

Italian humanist (1503-1569)

Roman Catholic archbishop

Portuguese writer (1761-1831)

French lawyer and food writer (1758-1837)

Patriarch of the Syrian Catholic Church

Wibald (; early 1098 – 19 July 1158) was a 12th-century abbot of Stavelot (Stablo) and Malmedy in present-day Belgium, and abbot of Corvey in Germany. He figured prominently in the court circle of the German kings of his time.

French writer (1699-1784)