← Fame through time1120-1129
The 1120s
Whose working lives fell in the 1120s. 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 1120s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Bernard of Clairvaux19 decades - 2
Henry V, Holy Roman Emperornot measured- - 3
John II Komnenos0 decades - 4
Conrad III of Germanynot measured- - 5
Fulk, King of Jerusalemnot measured- - 6
Suryavarman II1 decades - 7
Sigurd the Crusader0 decades - 8
Abraham ibn Ezra0 decades - 9
Yuri Dolgorukiy0 decades - 10
Bolesław III Wrymouthnot measured- - 11
William Adelin0 decades - 12
Saint Malachy0 decades - 13
Imad ad-Din Zengi0 decades - 14
Adelaide of Maurienne22 decades - 15
William Clito1 decades - 16
Irene of Hungary0 decades - 17
Eric II of Denmark0 decades - 18
Anacletus II1 decades - 19
Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucesternot measured- - 20
Frederick II, Duke of Swabianot measured- - 21
Al-Mustarshid0 decades - 22Yelü Dashi0 decades
- 23
Ibn Zuhr0 decades - 24
Hemachandra11 decades - 25
Khabul Khan0 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.