← 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 - 26
Gerard de Ridefort0 decades - 27
Rokujō0 decades - 28
Casimir II the Just0 decades - 29Marie I, Countess of Boulognenot measured-
- 30
Bernard de Ventadour0 decades - 31
Comtesse de Die0 decades - 32
Eisai6 decades - 33
Abu Yaqub Yusuf Inot measured- - 34
Al-Mustadi0 decades - 35
Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad0 decades - 36William of Montferrat0 decades
- 37
Hoelun1 decades - 38
Hōjō Tokimasa0 decades - 39
Sofia of Minsknot measured- - 40
Rosamund Clifford0 decades - 41
Umberto III, Count of Savoy21 decades - 42
Walter Map17 decades - 43
Richeza of Poland, Queen of Castilenot measured- - 44
Lu Jiuyuan5 decades - 45
Frederick V, Duke of Swabia13 decades - 46Ismat ad-Din Khatunnot measured-
- 47
Frederick, Duke of Bohemianot measured- - 48
Hendrik van Veldeke0 decades - 49
Hugh of Lincoln20 decades - 50
Bernhard, Count of Anhaltnot measured- - 51Sancha of Castile, Queen of Navarrenot measured-
- 52John Kinnamos0 decades
- 53
Albert III, Count of Habsburgnot measured- - 54
Matthew of Alsace2 decades - 55
Godfrey III, Count of Louvainnot measured- - 56
Joscelin III0 decades - 57
Conrad II, Duke of Bohemianot measured- - 58
Mikhail I of Vladimirnot measured- - 59
Elisabeth, Countess of Vermandois0 decades - 60
Il-Arslan0 decades - 61
Vitale II Michiel1 decades - 62
Rurik Rostislavich0 decades - 63
Minamoto no Tametomo0 decades - 64Manuel Komnenos0 decades
- 65
Frederick I, Duke of Lorrainenot measured- - 66
Michael Choniates0 decades - 67
Khusrau Malik0 decades - 68Frederick I, Burgrave of Nurembergnot measured-
- 69Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsīnot measured-
- 70
Wenceslaus IInot measured- - 71
Judith of Thuringia0 decades - 72
Floris III0 decades - 73Theodore Balsamon0 decades
- 74
Guiraut de Bornelh0 decades - 75Sinjong0 decades
- 76
Taira no Shigemori0 decades - 77
Guillaume aux Blanches Mains1 decades - 78
Walter of Châtillon0 decades
- 79
Conan IV, Duke of Brittany0 decades - 80
Alexios Komnenos0 decades - 81
Mstislav Rostislavich of Smolensknot measured- - 82
Helen of Znojmonot measured- - 83
Roman I of Kievnot measured- - 84
Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meathnot measured- - 85
Jakuren0 decades - 86Yēlǜ Pǔsùwánnot measured-
- 87
Nijō-in no Sanukinot measured- - 88Maria Komnene, Queen of Hungarynot measured-
- 89
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Fernando Afonso of Portugalnot measured- - 90Gervase of Canterbury17 decades
- 91
Simon II, Duke of Lorrainenot measured- - 92Ly Anh Tong0 decades
- 93
Herman IV, Margrave of Baden17 decades - 94Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd0 decades
- 95
Bernard II, Lord of Lippenot measured- - 96
Raimbaut d'Aurenga0 decades - 97
Markward von Annweiler7 decades - 98
Tokudaiji Sanesadanot measured- - 99
Kajiwara Kagetoki0 decades - 100
Jarosław, Duke of Opole, bishop of Breslau1 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.