← Fame through time1130-1139
The 1130s
Whose working lives fell in the 1130s. 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 1130s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Hildegard of Bingen15 decades - 2
Stephen, King of England0 decades - 3
Empress Matilda14 decades - 4
Pope Alexander III22 decades - 5
Geoffrey of Monmouth22 decades - 6
Roger II of Sicily0 decades - 7
Marie de Francenot measured- - 8
Pope Innocent II13 decades - 9
Albert the Bear7 decades - 10
Yue Fei3 decades - 11
Peter Lombard22 decades - 12
Héloïse16 decades - 13
Ahmad Yasawi0 decades - 14
William of Malmesbury22 decades - 15
Pope Gregory VIII0 decades - 16
Adeliza of Louvain0 decades - 17
Pope Honorius II0 decades - 18
William X, Duke of Aquitainenot measured- - 19
Gorakhnath6 decades - 20
Abd al-Mu'min0 decades - 21
Stephen II of Hungary0 decades - 22
Hugh of Saint Victor1 decades - 23
Pope Celestine II0 decades - 24
Avempace3 decades - 25
Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji0 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.