* 1471 – George, Duke of Saxony ( d. 1539 )

* 1471 – In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet ; the Earl is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.

* 1471 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick ( b. 1428 )

Albrecht Dürer (; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528 ) was a German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg.

# Georg " der Bärtige " ( b. Meissen, 27 August 1471 – d. Dresden, 17 April 1539 ).

The Mapuche fought against the Sapa Tupac Inca Yupanqui ( c. 1471 – 1493 ) and his army.

* Eskender ( 1471 – 1494 ), Emperor of Ethiopia sometimes known as Constantine II

Coming from modest beginnings in Savona, Liguria, the family rose to prominence through nepotism and ambitious marriages arranged by two Della Rovere popes, Francesco della Rovere, who ruled as Pope Sixtus IV ( 1471 – 1484 ) and his nephew Giuliano ( Pope Julius II, 1503 – 1513 ).

* 1421 – King Henry VI of England ( d. 1471 )

* 1417 – Pope Paul II ( d. 1471 )

* 1471 – Piero di Lorenzo de ' Medici, Italian ruler ( d. 1503 )

The Renaissance saw the continuation of interest in magic that had been found in the Mediaeval period, and in this period, there was an increased interest in Hermeticism amongst occultists and ceremonial magicians in Europe, largely fuelled by the 1471 translation of the ancient Corpus hermeticum into Latin by Marsilio Ficino ( 1433 – 1499 ).

George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony ( Meissen, 27 August 1471 – Dresden, 17 April 1539 ), was duke of Saxony from 1500 to 1539.

File: Durer selfporitrait. jpg | Albrecht Dürer ( 1471 – 1528 )

* 1419 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan ( d. 1471 )

* 1471 – Eskender, Ethiopian emperor ( d. 1494 )

The Kalmar Union ( Danish, Norwegian and ; ) is a historiographical term describing a series of personal unions ( 1397 – 1523 ) that intermittently joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden ( then including Finland ), and Norway ( then including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and, prior to their transfer to Scotland in 1471, Shetland and Orkney ).

* 1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.

* 1538 – John Forrest, English friar and martyr ( b. 1471 )

* 1471 – George of Podebrady, King of Bohemia ( b. 1420 )

* 1471 – Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm: Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by Christian I, King of Denmark.

* 1471 – King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway ( d. 1533 )

* 1453 – Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales ( d. 1471 )

* March 30 – Konrad Mutian, German humanist ( b. 1471 )

* Albrecht Dürer ( 1471 – 1528 ) was a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg, Germany.

** Thomas à Kempis, German monk and writer ( d. 1471 )

** Thomas à Kempis, German monk and writer ( d. 1471 )

* April 6 – Albrecht Dürer, German artist, writer, and mathematician ( b. 1471 )

The German Northern Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer ( 1471 – 1528 ) who painted several fine botanical, wildlife and landscape watercolors, is generally considered among the earliest exponents of the medium.

* Albrecht Dürer ( German, 1471 – 1528 ) Greatest painter and printmaker of the Northern Renaissance

That same year he moved to Rome, where he acquired a friend and patron, the Renaissance humanist and cardinal Egidio da Viterbo ( 1471 – 1532 ) of Viterbo, in whose palace he lived for more than ten years.

* 1438 – Louis II, Landgrave of Lower Hesse ( d. 1471 )

Sir Thomas Malory ( c. 1405 – 14 March 1471 ) was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d ' Arthur.

* Sir Thomas Malory ( – March 14, 1471 ) was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d ' Arthur.

* Sir Thomas Malory of England ( 1405 ?– 1471 ), soldier, member of Parliament, political prisoner, and author of Le Morte d ' Arthur

* October 13 – Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales ( d. 1471 )

** John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu, English politician ( d. 1471 )

## in 1446 to Count Martin of Waldenfels ( d. 1471 ).

* February 21 – Isabella of Portugal ( d. 1471 )

* February 23 – Pope Paul II ( d. 1471 )

* July 10 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan ( d. 1471 )

* November 22 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English kingmaker ( d. 1471 )

* probable – Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English nobleman and military commander during the Wars of the Roses ( d. 1471 )

Some maintenance was done by subsequent owners, Richard Beauchamp ( d. 1439 ), Richard Neville ( d. 1471 ) and Jasper Tudor ( d. 1495 ), probably because of its strategic usefulness, but this petered out at the end of the 15th century.