← 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 - 26
Eric III of Denmarknot measured- - 27
Wacenot measured- - 28
Tobanot measured- - 29
Bohemond II of Antioch0 decades - 30
Henrynot measured- - 31
Canute Lavard0 decades - 32
Owain Gwynedd13 decades - 33
Henry X, Duke of Bavaria0 decades - 34
Niklot0 decades - 35
Harald IV of Norwaynot measured- - 36
Köten0 decades - 37
Mesudnot measured- - 38
Arnold of Brescia18 decades - 39
Usama ibn Munqidh0 decades - 40
Thierry of Lorraine, Count of Flanders0 decades - 41
Emperor Qinzong of Songnot measured- - 42
Sverker I of Swedennot measured- - 43
Alphonse Jourdain17 decades - 44Aenor de Châtelleraultnot measured-
- 45
Al-Muqtafi0 decades - 46
Iziaslav II of Kievnot measured- - 47
Conrad, Margrave of Meissennot measured- - 48
Al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allahnot measured- - 49
Al-Rashid8 decades - 50
Philip of Francenot measured- - 51
William Longchamp11 decades - 52
Robert de Craon0 decades - 53
Magnus IV of Norway0 decades - 54
Cecile of Francenot measured- - 55
Amadeus III, Count of Savoy3 decades - 56
André de Montbard1 decades - 57
Mahmud II of Great Seljuqnot measured- - 58Barisan of Ibelinnot measured-
- 59
Henry of Blois11 decades - 60
Bernard de Tremelay0 decades - 61
Euphrosyne of Polotsk0 decades - 62
Ǧābir Ibn-Aflāḥnot measured- - 63
Elvira of Leonnot measured- - 64
Gregory VIII22 decades - 65
Hugh II of Jaffa0 decades - 66Victor IV6 decades
- 67Matthew of Edessa1 decades
- 68
Judith of Bavaria, Duchess of Swabia0 decades - 69
Nerses IV the Graciousnot measured- - 70
Andronikos I of Trebizondnot measured- - 71
Atsız0 decades - 72
Roland the Farter0 decades - 73
Igor II of Kievnot measured- - 74Elimar II, Count of Oldenburgnot measured-
- 75
Leo I, Prince of Armenianot measured- - 76
Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembrokenot measured- - 77
Magnus I of Sweden0 decades - 78
Sebastiano Ziani21 decades - 79
Liang Hongyunot measured- - 80
John of Worcester3 decades - 81
Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of Aragonnot measured- - 82
Lallinot measured- - 83
Werner II0 decades - 84Theodora Komnene Angelinanot measured-
- 85
Eupraxia Mstislavnanot measured- - 86
Domenico Selvo0 decades - 87
Peter of Bruys21 decades - 88William V, Marquess of Montferratnot measured-
- 89
Rabbeinu Tam21 decades - 90
Iziaslav III of Kievnot measured- - 91
Ponsnot measured- - 92
Otto IV, Count of Wittelsbach0 decades - 93
Gwenllian ferch Gruffyddnot measured- - 94
Vsevolod of Pskovnot measured- - 95Mu'in ad-Din Unurnot measured-
- 96Matilda of Anjou0 decades
- 97Raymond of Aguilers2 decades
- 98
George of Antioch0 decades - 99
Gislebertusnot measured- - 100John Xiphilinus0 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.