# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francois-bonivard
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:53:56.910Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francois-bonivard"
name: "François Bonivard"
slug: "francois-bonivard"
description: "François Bonivard was a nobleman, ecclesiastic, historian, and Geneva patriot at the time of the Republic of Geneva. His life was the inspiration for Lord Byron's 1816 poem The Prisoner of Chillon. He was a partisan of the Protestant Reformation, and by most accounts was a libertine, despite his vocation."
tagline: "Genevan patriot, politician and historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chillon%2C_d%C3%A9livrance_de_Bonivard_par_les_troupes_bernoises_(1536).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1493"
deathDate: "1570"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.96522933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B0_%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Франсуа Бонівар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "فرانسوا بونيفار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Bonivard"
    title: "François Bonivard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Bonivard"
    title: "François Bonivard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Bonivard"
    title: "François Bonivard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Bonivard"
    title: "François Bonivard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Bonivard"
    title: "François Bonivard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Bonivard"
    title: "François Bonivard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Bonivard"
    title: "François Bonivard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Bonivard"
    title: "François Bonivard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Bonivard"
    title: "François Bonivard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B0"
    title: "Бонивар, Франсуа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Bonivard"
    title: "François Bonivard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2458567"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump