← Fame through time1140-1149
The 1140s
Whose working lives fell in the 1140s. 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 1140s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Adrian IV22 decades - 2
Muhammad al-Idrisi0 decades - 3
Afonso I of Portugal0 decades - 4
Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou13 decades - 5
Bhāskara II0 decades - 6
Enrico Dandolo1 decades - 7
Melisende3 decades - 8
Alfonso VII of Castile0 decades - 9
Stefan Nemanja0 decades - 10
Pope Celestine III2 decades - 11
Béla II of Hungarynot measured- - 12
Matilda of Boulogne1 decades - 13
Pope Lucius III3 decades - 14
Gerard of Cremona10 decades - 15
Andrey Bogolyubsky0 decades - 16
Emperor Gaozong of Song3 decades - 17
Otto of Freising22 decades - 18
Raymond of Poitiers17 decades - 19
John Tzetzes3 decades - 20
Pope Anastasius IV0 decades - 21
Shirkuh7 decades - 22
John of Salisbury22 decades - 23
Władysław II the Exilenot measured- - 24
Ramon Berenguer IVnot measured- - 25
Innocent III22 decades - 26
García Ramírez of Navarre0 decades - 27
Ibn Tufail0 decades - 28
Aelred of Rievaulx4 decades - 29
Kilij Arslan II0 decades - 30
Diarmait Mac Murchada0 decades - 31
Sibylla of Anjou0 decades - 32
Najm ad-Din Ayyub0 decades - 33
Abraham ibn Daud0 decades - 34
Vladislaus II of Bohemianot measured- - 35
Paschal III0 decades - 36
Berengaria of Barcelona0 decades - 37
Wang Chongyangnot measured- - 38Alice of Antioch0 decades
- 39
Ibn Asakir0 decades - 40
Marcabru6 decades - 41
Minamoto no Yorimasa0 decades - 42
Maurice de Sully0 decades - 43
William of Norwich2 decades
- 44
Bertha of Sulzbach0 decades - 45
Leopold, Duke of Bavarianot measured- - 46
Joscelin II0 decades - 47
Helena, Queen of Hungarynot measured- - 48
Everard des Barres0 decades - 49
Gertrude of Süpplingenburgnot measured- - 50
Odo de St Amand0 decades - 51
Rainald of Dassel16 decades - 52Ala al-Din Husayn0 decades
- 53
Rostislav I of Kievnot measured- - 54
Richard of Saint Victor0 decades - 55
Saint Drogo0 decades - 56
Hugh VIII of Lusignan0 decades - 57Ambaghainot measured-
- 58
Injongnot measured- - 59
Godfrey II, Count of Louvainnot measured- - 60
Henry IV, Count of Luxembourgnot measured- - 61
Matilda of Carinthianot measured- - 62
Bertrand de Blanchefort0 decades - 63
Roger III, Duke of Apulia0 decades - 64Andronikos Komnenos0 decades
- 65Hotula Khannot measured-
- 66Ishaq ibn ʿAlinot measured-
- 67
Tashfin ibn ʿAlinot measured- - 68
Sviatoslav Olgovich0 decades - 69
Baldwin IV, Count of Hainautnot measured- - 70
Ingrid Ragnvaldsdotternot measured- - 71David V of Georgianot measured-
- 72Herman IIInot measured-
- 73John Tzelepes Komnenosnot measured-
- 74
Dirk VI, Count of Holland0 decades - 75Ghiyath ad-Din Mas'udnot measured-
- 76Henry II, Duke of Limburgnot measured-
- 77
Gertrude of Sulzbachnot measured- - 78Ibn Tāshfīnnot measured-
- 79
Düsum Khyenpa, 1st Karmapa Lama0 decades - 80Alice of Namurnot measured-
- 81
Alan of Penthièvre, 4rd Lord of the Honour of Richmond, 1st Earl of Richmondnot measured- - 82
Ratibor I, Duke of Pomeranianot measured- - 83
Nizami Aruzi0 decades - 84
Fujiwara no Toshinari0 decades - 85Walter fitz Alan0 decades
- 86
Grimaldo Canellanot measured- - 87Boris Kalamanosnot measured-
- 88Daud I ibn Mahmudnot measured-
- 89
Abu-l-Qasim Ahmad ibn al-Husayn ibn Qasinot measured- - 90Abu Sa'd 'Abd al-Karim al-Samaninot measured-
- 91Bertha, Duchess of Brittany0 decades
- 92
Berthold I of Istria17 decades - 93
Berenguer Ramon, Count of Provence0 decades - 94Baha al-Din Sam Inot measured-
- 95
Fujiwara no Michinori0 decades - 96
William IV of Burgundynot measured- - 97Odo of Deuil0 decades
- 98Sayf al-Din Surinot measured-
- 99
Shun'e0 decades - 100
Anthelm of Belleynot measured-
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.