← Fame through time1180-1189
The 1180s
Whose working lives fell in the 1180s. 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 1180s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem0 decades - 2
Guy of Lusignannot measured- - 3
Henry the Young King0 decades - 4
Minamoto no Yoritomo0 decades - 5
Saxo Grammaticus22 decades - 6
Pope Honorius III19 decades - 7
Attar of Nishapur0 decades - 8
Alexios III Angelos0 decades - 9
Alexios II Komnenos0 decades - 10
Sancho I of Portugal0 decades - 11
Minamoto no Yoshitsune0 decades - 12
Béla III of Hungary0 decades - 13
Conrad of Montferrat6 decades - 14
Baldwin V of Jerusalem0 decades - 15
Fakhr al-Din al-Razinot measured- - 16
William II of Sicily0 decades - 17
Gerald of Wales7 decades - 18
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembrokenot measured- - 19
Marie of France, Countess of Champagnenot measured- - 20
Sverre of Norway0 decades - 21
Al-Adil Inot measured- - 22
Musashibō Benkeinot measured- - 23
Antoku0 decades - 24
Maria Komnenenot measured- - 25
Constance, Queen of Sicilynot 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.