Ruler · 1521 – 1590

Pope Sixtus V

Lived 1521 – 1590. Pope of Papal States, 1585 – 1590.

Wikidata's English label: Sixtus V.

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Lived: 1521 – 1590; 69 years
In office: 5 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Papal States
Left it: died in office; Wikidata's manner of death

Pope

Papal States · the 136th of 163 dated reigns · 757 – 1878 · read from the line of Vatican City

132 before

Pope Pius IV1560 – 1565

Pope Pius V1566 – 1572

Pope Gregory XIII1572 – 1585

Pope Sixtus V1585 – 1590

Urban VII1590

Pope Gregory XIV1590 – 1591

Innocent IX1591

24 after

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1585 – 1590 · 5 years · came to it aged 64

Left it: died in officeWikidata's manner of death: natural causes; malaria

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