← Fame through time1040-1049
The 1040s
Whose working lives fell in the 1040s. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1040s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Pope Benedict IX0 decades - 2
Harthacnutnot measured- - 3
Henry I of France0 decades - 4
Harold Harefoot10 decades - 5
Macbeth, King of Scotlandnot measured- - 6
Pope Alexander II7 decades - 7
Pope Victor II18 decades - 8
Magnus the Good3 decades - 9
Pope Clement II0 decades - 10
Isaac I Komnenos0 decades - 11Godwin, Earl of Wessexnot measured-
- 12
Constantine X Doukas0 decades - 13
Michael IV the Paphlagonian0 decades - 14
Peter Damian22 decades - 15
Michael V Kalaphates0 decades - 16
Youssef ibn Tashfinnot measured- - 17
Michael I Cerularius0 decades - 18
Emperor Renzong of Songnot measured- - 19
Hermann of Reichenau17 decades - 20
Khwaja Abdullah Ansari0 decades - 21
Peter, King of Hungarynot measured- - 22
Adela of France0 decades - 23
Anawrahta6 decades - 24
Lanfranc22 decades - 25
Ramiro I of Aragon0 decades
How to read these rankings
- People sit in their own time. Everyone is placed in the century their working life belongs to, and never in one that came after their death.
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record, read across every language rather than one. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus. Those decades are closed, so each curve is measured once and kept.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, or a name belongs to more than one notable person, we would rather show nothing than guess.