← Fame through time1150-1159
The 1150s
Whose working lives fell in the 1150s. 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 1150s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor20 decades - 2
Eleanor of Aquitaine19 decades - 3
Thomas Becket22 decades - 4
Louis VII of France5 decades - 5
Manuel I Komnenos0 decades - 6
Andronikos I Komnenos0 decades - 7
Raynald of Châtillon22 decades - 8
Sancho III of Castile17 decades - 9
William I of Sicily1 decades - 10
Emperor Sutoku0 decades - 11
Taira no Kiyomori0 decades - 12
Eric IX of Sweden0 decades - 13
Abu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzinot measured- - 14
Sweyn III of Denmarknot measured- - 15
Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavarianot measured- - 16
Eustathius of Thessalonica0 decades - 17
Emperor Konoe0 decades - 18
Alain of Lille0 decades - 19
William IX, Count of Poitiersnot measured- - 20
Robert I, Count of Dreux0 decades - 21
Nur ad-Din2 decades - 22
Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair0 decades - 23
Canute V of Denmarknot measured- - 24
Saigyō0 decades - 25
Minamoto no Yoshitomo0 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.