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.

* Anna Maria of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( December 28, 1526 – May 20, 1589 ) who married Christoph, Duke of Württemberg in 1544.

* Ingeborg Eriksdotter Trolle, died 1590, married 13 January 1544 Niels Eriksen Ryning, Lord of Lagnoe and Gimmersta ( died 1578 )

On 6 July 1544, she married Matthew Stuart, 4th Earl of Lennox, one of Scotland's leading noblemen.

In 1544 Lady Margaret married a Scottish exile, Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, ( 1516 – 1571 ), who later became regent of Scotland in 1570-1571.

# Anna ( 26 October 1529 – 10 July 1591 ), married on 24 February 1544 to Count palatine Wolfgang of Zweibrücken.

# Margretha, Countess zu Dietz ( 14 October 1544 – 1608 ), married:

* Princess Renhe, married Qi Shimei in 1489 and died 1544

He left an illegitimate daughter Isabel who, in 1544, married Henry Tempest of Broughton.

* Lady Elizabeth Campbell d. c 1544 / 45, married James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, an illegitimate son of King James IV.

She married Nanning Gerbrandsz Borst around 1544.

In 1544, he married Lady Margaret Douglas, which significantly improved the claim to the Scottish throne of any of his progeny and also introduced a claim to the English throne.

He was next married to Jeanne Darmeis, the widow of Pierre Corne, from 1544 until her death in 1552 ; they " lived very little and very badly together.

# Anna ( b. Dresden, 23 December 1544 – d. Dresden, 18 December 1577 ), married on 24 August 1561 to Prince William I of Orange-Nassau.

* Lady Anne Talbot ( 18 March 1523 – 18 July 1588 ), married first Peter Compton ( d. 30 January 1544 ) and had one son, Henry Compton, 1st Baron Compton ; married second William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke.

Henry married Margery ( Margaret ) Williams of Rycote, Oxfordshire ( 1521-December 1599 ) sometime between December 1542 and 26 August 1544.

Having been Lord Privy Seal for a few months, he became Lord Chancellor in 1544, in which capacity he became notorious for his persecution of Anne Askew ; Askew alleged that he operated the rack on which she was tortured.

* Anne Stafford, Countess of Huntingdon ( c. 1483 – 1544 )

He crossed over to England with the royal bride, but, unlike Thomas Cromwell, he did not lose the royal favour when the king repudiated Anne, and in 1541, having already refused the bishopric of Hereford, he became the first post-Reformation dean of Canterbury and in 1544 dean of York.

Work was completed in 1544 and it operated as a hospital almshouse ( dedicated to Mary Magdalen ) under the control of MacQueen's widow, Janet Rynd until her death in 1553, when it passed to the Incorporation of Hammermen ( metalworkers ).

The father died before 1544, and his widow remarried Fulk Onslow, clerk of the parliament ; dying on 8 October 1582, she was buried in the church of Hatfield, Hertfordshire.

* 1603 – William Gilbert, English physicist and physician ( b. 1544 )

By the time William Grindal became her tutor in 1544, Elizabeth could write English, Latin, and Italian.

The 1544 Greek edition formed the basis of the 1732 English translation by William Whiston, which achieved enormous popularity in the English-speaking world ( and which is currently available online for free download via Project Gutenberg ).

* William Gilbert ( 1544 – 1603 ) published On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth in 1600, which laid the foundations of a theory of magnetism and electricity.

* December 10 – William Gilbert, English scientist ( plague ) ( b. 1544 )

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

Most of Provence remained strongly Catholic, with only one enclave of Protestants, the principality of Orange, Vaucluse, an enclave ruled by Prince William of the House of Orange-Nassau of the Netherlands, which was created in 1544 and was not incorporated into France until 1673.

After the death of René in 1544 his cousin William of Nassau-Dillenburg inherited all his lands.

When René died prematurely on the battlefield in 1544 his possessions passed to his cousin, William I of Orange.

When his cousin, René of Châlon, Prince of Orange, died childless in 1544, the eleven-year-old William inherited all Châlon's property, including the title Prince of Orange, on the condition that he receive a Roman Catholic education.

When William the Silent, count of Nassau, with estates in the Netherlands, inherited the title Prince of Orange in 1544, the Principality was incorporated into the holdings of what became the House of Orange-Nassau.

William Gilbert, also known as Gilberd, ( 24 May 1544 – 30 November 1603 ) was an English physician, physicist and natural philosopher.

* 1544: The Earl of Ormond went into Clanrickard to assist his kinsman, William Burke, son of Rickard ; but the sons of Rickard Oge suddenly defeated him ; and a good baron of his people, namely, Mac Oda, was slain ; and more than forty of the Earl's troops were slain in the gateway of Athenry on that occasion.

* November 30 – William Gilbert, natural philosopher ( born 1544 )

He stayed for some time at Cambridge taking pupils, among whom was William Grindal, who in 1544 became tutor to Princess Elizabeth.

In the summer of 1544, he told Sir William Paget a work was in the press, " on the art of Shooting ".

* William Gilbert ( 1544 – 1603 ) – scientist, pioneer in the field of magnetism and court physician to Elizabeth I and James I

Sir Christopher Hatton was the second son of William Hatton ( d. 28 August 1546 ) of Holdenby, Northamptonshire, and his second wife, Alice Saunders, the daughter of Lawrence Saunders ( d. 1544 ) of Harrington, Northamptonshire, and his wife, Alice Brokesby, the daughter of Robert Brokesby ( d. 28 March 1531 ) of Shoby, Leicestershire, and Alice Shirley.

* William FitzAlan, 11th or 18th Earl of Arundel ( 1476 – 1544 )

By 1544, Berkhamsted School's first building, now known as ' Old Hall ' was complete, later to be described by William Camden as " the only structure in Berkhamsted worth a second glance.

However, by the time Wilton Abbey was dissolved during the Dissolution of the Monasteries by King Henry VIII of England, its prosperity was already on the wane — following the seizure of the abbey, King Henry presented it and the estates to William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke ( in the 1551 creation ) in c. 1544.

William added the name of Orange to his own paternal dignities and thus became in 1544 the founder of the House of Orange-Nassau.

Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, KG ( REYE-əths-lee ; 21 December 1505 – 30 July 1550 ), known as The Lord Wriothesley between 1544 and 1547, was a politician of the Tudor period born in London to William Wrythe and Agnes Drayton.

The mill was leased in 1544 to William Hutchinson, yeoman of the spicery, and Janet his wife for their lives.