← Fame through time1170-1179
The 1170s
Whose working lives fell in the 1170s. 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 1170s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Saladin22 decades - 2
Maimonidesnot measured- - 3
Chrétien de Troyes21 decades - 4
Muhammad of Ghor0 decades - 5
Nizami Ganjavi0 decades - 6
William the Lion22 decades - 7
Alexios V Doukas0 decades - 8
Balian of Ibelin0 decades - 9
Amalric of Jerusalem0 decades - 10
Mu'in al-Din Chishtinot measured-
- 11
Adèle of Champagne7 decades - 12
Peter Waldo12 decades - 13
Joachim of Fiore5 decades - 14
Agnes of Courtenay0 decades - 15
Tancred, King of Sicilynot measured- - 16
Ferdinand II of León0 decades - 17
Petronilla of Aragon0 decades - 18
Stephen III of Hungary0 decades - 19Al-Adid0 decades
- 20
Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundynot measured- - 21
Léonin0 decades - 22
Xin Qiji7 decades - 23
Philip I, Count of Flanders22 decades - 24
Bertran de Born8 decades - 25
Bohemond III of Antioch0 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.