Joris moved to Basel in 1544 and protected himself by living under the assumed name Johann van Brugge.

The last actual bishop was Matthias von Jagow ( d. 1544 ), who took the side of the Reformation, married, and in every way furthered the undertakings of Elector Joachim II.

* 1526 – 1544: Matthias von Jagow, Lutheran

* Katharina ( Katarzyna ) ( 1503 – before 9 September 1548 ) wed after 1522 George II Count von Montfort in Pfannberg ( d. 1544 )

* Jodokus von der Recke 1544 – 51

* Katherina von Waldeck ( 1544 – 1597 ).

* Conrad von Bibra 1540 – 1544

* Melchior Zobel von Giebelstadt 1544 – 1558

de: Anna von Sachsen ( 1544 – 1577 )

Only in 1544 did a version of the standard Greek text become available, edited by the Dutch humanist Arnoldus Arlenius.

In 1544 a deal was struck with the Netherlands ( then part of the Holy Roman Empire ) and the Dutch controlled the export of Norwegian timber for the next 150 years.

War was declared against Charles V in 1542, and, though the German Protestant princes proved faithless allies, the closing of the Sound against Dutch shipping proved such an effective weapon in King Christian's hand that the Netherlands compelled Charles V to make peace with Denmark at the diet of Speyer, on 23 May 1544.

By 1544, the term Mennonite or Mennist was used in a letter to refer to the Dutch Anabaptists.

Gillis van Coninxloo ( 1544 – 1607 ) was a Dutch painter of forest landscapes, the most famous member of a large family of artists.

Published in 1544, it borrowed greatly from Martin Luther's Litany and Myles Coverdale's New Testament and was the only service that might be considered to be " Protestant " to be finished within the lifetime of King Henry VIII.

At age 37, Mary turned her attention to finding a husband and producing an heir, thus preventing the Protestant Elizabeth ( still her successor under the terms of Henry VIII's will and the Act of Succession of 1544 ) from succeeding to the throne.

Mercator was charged with heresy in 1544 on the basis of his sympathy for Protestant beliefs and suspicions about his frequent travels.

The phrase cuius regio, eius religio as applied to the outcome of the Protestant Reformation is attributed to the early seventeenth century jurist Joachim Stephani ( 1544 – 1623 ) of the University of Greifswald.

It was founded in 1544 as second Protestant academy ( after the University of Marburg ) by Duke Albert of Prussia, and was commonly known as the Albertina.

The Peace of Crépy in September 1544 deprived him of this employment, but he had won a considerable reputation, and when Charles was preparing to attack the Schmalkaldic League, he took pains to win Albert's assistance.

He was the first German noble to support Luther's ideas and in 1544 founded the University of Königsberg ( the so called Albertina ) as a rival to the Roman Catholic Cracow Academy ; it was only the second Lutheran university in the German states, after Marburg.

Between 1544 and 1563, Ecuador was an integral Spain's colonies in the New World under the Viceroyalty of Peru, having no administrative status independent of Lima.

Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon, in February or March 1544 at the earliest, when his namesake godfather Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford was age 17.

Henry VIII of England was short of gunpowder when he invaded France in 1544 AD and England needed to import gunpowder via the port of Antwerp.

From 1544 to 1551, Palestrina was organist of the principal church ( St. Agapito ) of his native city, and in 1551 he became maestro di cappella at the Cappella Giulia, the papal choir at St Peter's.

This was followed by an open letter to the pope ( Admonitio paterna Pauli III ) in 1544, in which Calvin admonished Paul III for depriving the reformers of any prospect of rapprochement.

The Komondor was brought to Europe by the Cumans and it was mentioned for the first time in 1544 in a Hungarian codex.

He was a favourite with Francis I, who sent him as ambassador to Charles V after the Peace of Crepy in 1544.

His father Francesco Sfondrati, a senator of the ancient comune of Milan, was created Cardinal-Priest by Pope Paul III in 1544.

He was a lawyer, a graduate in 1544 of the University of Bologna, which was pre-eminent in jurisprudence, and became secretary to Cardinal Nicolò Ardinghelli before entering the service of Alessandro Cardinal Farnese, brother of the Duke of Parma and grandson of Pope Paul III ( 1534 – 1549 ), one of the great patrons of the time.

Perhaps surprisingly, it was the dying Edward himself who feared a return to Catholicism, and wrote a new will repudiating the 1544 will of Henry VIII.

He returned to Scotland in 1544, but the timing of his return was unfortunate.

His work, the Cosmographia from 1544, was the earliest German description of the world.

His Cosmographia of 1544 was the earliest German description of the world.

Year 1544 ( MDXLIV ) was a leap year starting on Tuesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

To escape the many temptations to which he was exposed, with the knowledge of two friends, he became engaged in the year 1544 to a young girl of humble descent, Claudine Denoese, promising to publicly marry her as soon as his circumstances would allow it.

William Turner's Historia Avium (" History of Birds "), published at Cologne in 1544, was an early ornithological work from England.

Zedler owned property in Wolfshain, one of five villages that Moritz, Duke of Saxony had given Leipzig University in 1544.

With the patent given to John Farlyon in 1534 as Yeoman of the Revels, what may be considered as an independent office of the Revels ( within the general sphere of the Lord Chamberlain ) came into being ; and in 1544 Sir Thomas Cawarden received a patent as Master of the Revels, he being the first to become head of an independent office.

Following the suppression of that convent in the early 16th century the manor was given to Cardinal Wolsey, though was seized by the Crown shortly afterwards in 1544 along with Wolsey's other possessions.

In 1544, she was given the task of entering peace negotiations with Charles and her sister Mary.

* Catherine Parr the last of Henry VIII's wives was given the original manor of Nash Court in 1544.