← Fame through time1160-1169
The 1160s
Whose working lives fell in the 1160s. 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 1160s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Henry II of England12 decades - 2
Averroes22 decades - 3
Zhu Xi8 decades - 4
Henry the Lion22 decades - 5
William of Tyre22 decades - 6
Baldwin III of Jerusalem0 decades - 7
Basava20 decades - 8
Benjamin of Tudela13 decades - 9
Yesugei2 decades - 10
Valdemar I of Denmark0 decades - 11
Saint Rosalia0 decades - 12
Lu You8 decades - 13
Jayavarman VII7 decades - 14
Malcolm IV of Scotland0 decades - 15
Géza II of Hungary0 decades - 16
Go-Shirakawa1 decades - 17
Toghrulnot measured- - 18Constance of Antioch0 decades
- 19
Sancho VI of Navarre0 decades - 20
Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembrokenot measured- - 21
Absalonnot measured- - 22
Rashid ad-Din Sinan0 decades - 23
Nijōnot measured- - 24
Inge I of Norwaynot measured- - 25
Peter I of Courtenaynot measured- - 26
Michael the Syrian5 decades - 27
Imad ad-Din al-Isfahaninot measured- - 28
Emperor Xiaozong of Songnot measured- - 29
Raymond V, Count of Toulouse1 decades - 30
Otto II, Margrave of Meissennot measured- - 31
Saint Thorlak0 decades - 32
Karl Sverkersson0 decades - 33
Herrad of Landsberg0 decades - 34
Theobald V, Count of Blois0 decades - 35
Hōnen1 decades - 36
Euphrosyne of Kyivnot measured- - 37
Stephen IV of Hungary0 decades - 38
Mieszko III the Old0 decades - 39
Rhys ap Gruffydd0 decades - 40
Ladislaus II of Hungarynot measured- - 41
Constance of Leónnot measured- - 42Al-Faiz0 decades
- 43
Haakon II of Norwaynot measured- - 44
Konstantinos Manasses0 decades - 45Petronilla of Aquitaine0 decades
- 46Callixtus III0 decades
- 47
Henry I, Count of Champagnenot measured- - 48
Theodora Komnene, Duchess of Austrianot measured- - 49
Baldwin of Ibelinnot measured- - 50
Felix of Valois21 decades - 51
William of Newburgh20 decades - 52
Elizabeth of Schönau0 decades - 53
Abu Madyan0 decades - 54
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Ala ad-Din Tekishnot measured- - 55
Anvari4 decades - 56
Mieszko IV Tanglefootnot measured- - 57
Magnus Henriksson0 decades - 58
Bolesław I the Tallnot measured- - 59Andronikos Doukas Angelosnot measured-
- 60
Archpoet0 decades - 61Constance of France, Countess of Toulouse1 decades
- 62
Urraca of Castile, Queen of Navarre3 decades - 63Fan Chengdanot measured-
- 64
Ottokar III of Styrianot measured- - 65
Berthold IV, Duke of Zähringennot measured- - 66
Cyril of Turawnot measured- - 67
Legend of Jigongnot measured- - 68Adelaide of Vohburg0 decades
- 69
William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundelnot measured- - 70
Al-Samawal al-Maghribinot measured- - 71Hugh of Ibelin0 decades
- 72
Turan-Shah0 decades - 73
Beatrice of Rethel0 decades - 74Myeongjongnot measured-
- 75
Reginald of Sidon0 decades - 76John Doukas0 decades
- 77
Conrad of Wittelsbach0 decades - 78Uijong0 decades
- 79
Hassan IInot measured- - 80
Margaret of Navarrenot measured- - 81
Lorcán Ua Tuathail0 decades - 82
Saint Meinhardnot measured- - 83
Frederick IV, Duke of Swabianot measured- - 84
Adolf II of Holstein0 decades - 85Ban Borićnot measured-
- 86John Doukas Komnenosnot measured-
- 87Mlehnot measured-
- 88
Baldwin of Forde0 decades - 89
Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey0 decades - 90
Mkhitar Gosh0 decades - 91
Nicholas of Verdun19 decades - 92
Qutb ad-Din Mawdudnot measured- - 93William FitzEmpress0 decades
- 94
Tayan Khannot measured- - 95
Gleb of Kievnot measured- - 96
Yaroslav II of Kievnot measured- - 97
Vladimir III Mstislavichnot measured- - 98Abu'l-Qasim al-Tayyibnot measured-
- 99
Ildeniznot measured- - 100
Bogislaw I, Duke of Pomeranianot 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.