← 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- - 26
Sancho VII of Navarre9 decades - 27
Qutb al-Din Aibak0 decades - 28
Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony1 decades - 29
Vsevolod III the Big Nestnot measured- - 30
Aimery of Cyprus0 decades - 31
Roman the Great0 decades - 32
Takakuranot measured- - 33
Maria of Antioch0 decades - 34Alice of France6 decades
- 35
Leo I, King of Armenianot measured- - 36
Magnus V of Norwaynot measured- - 37
Minamoto no Yoshinaka0 decades - 38Ibn Jubayr3 decades
- 39
Qiu Chujinot measured- - 40
Stephen Langton22 decades - 41
Agnes of Antiochnot measured- - 42
Canute I of Swedennot measured- - 43
Robert de Sablé0 decades - 44
Arnaut Daniel7 decades - 45
Margaret I, Countess of Flanders8 decades - 46
Geoffrey of Villehardouin0 decades - 47
Hugh III, Duke of Burgundynot measured- - 48
As-Salih Ismail al-Maliknot measured- - 49
Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragonnot measured- - 50
Ibn Qudamah0 decades - 51
Peter IV of Bulgarianot measured- - 52
Urraca of Portugal0 decades - 53
Geoffrey IInot measured- - 54
Abu Hafs Umar al-Suhrawardinot measured- - 55
Igor Svyatoslavich0 decades - 56
Ivan Asen I of Bulgarianot measured- - 57
David Soslan0 decades - 58Behter0 decades
- 59
Robert II, Count of Dreux0 decades - 60
Theodora Komnenenot measured- - 61
Boniface I, Marquess of Montferratnot measured- - 62
Benedetto Antelami16 decades - 63
Emperor Guangzong of Songnot measured- - 64Gervase of Tilbury13 decades
- 65
Madog ab Owain Gwynedd0 decades - 66
Mstislav III of Kyivnot measured- - 67
Taira no Munemori0 decades - 68
Berthold IV, Duke of Meranianot measured- - 69
Najmuddin Kubra0 decades - 70Maurice, Count of Oldenburg3 decades
- 71
Bonanno Pisano0 decades - 72
Baha ad-Din Shoiebnot measured- - 73
Shikishi-naishinnōnot measured- - 74
Amalric of Bena0 decades - 75
Wincenty Kadłubek0 decades - 76
Baldwin V, Count of Hainautnot measured- - 77
Christina the Astonishing0 decades - 78
David of Scotlandnot measured- - 79
Eleanor, Countess of Vermandois0 decades - 80
Pietro Ziani21 decades - 81
Galgano Guidotti0 decades - 82Ibn al-'Awwam0 decades
- 83
Gertrude of Bavarianot measured- - 84Andreas Capellanus8 decades
- 85
Unkei2 decades - 86
Taira no Tomomori0 decades - 87Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg22 decades
- 88
Louis IIInot measured- - 89
Samuel ibn Tibbon1 decades - 90Mahmud Yalavach0 decades
- 91
Dedi III, Margrave of Lusatianot measured- - 92Geoffreynot measured-
- 93Kaya Alpnot measured-
- 94
Bénézet of Avignon0 decades - 95
Hermann Joseph0 decades - 96
Orio Mastropiero0 decades - 97
Ingvar of Kievnot measured- - 98Conon de Béthune0 decades
- 99Abdul-Wahid I, Almohad Caliphnot measured-
- 100Gangjong of Goryeonot 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.