← Fame through time1000-1099
The 11th century
Whose working lives fell in the 11th century. 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 11th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
William the Conqueror22 decades - 2
William II of England0 decades - 3
Godfrey of Bouillon22 decades - 4
Pope Urban II22 decades - 5
Pope Leo IX13 decades - 6
Henry I of France0 decades - 7
Philip I of France0 decades - 8
Emma of Normandy0 decades - 9
Robert Curthose0 decades - 10
Robert II of France0 decades - 11
Rashi13 decades - 12
Robert Guiscard22 decades - 13
Anne of Kiev0 decades - 14
Bohemond I of Antioch7 decades - 15
Pope Nicholas II2 decades - 16
Baldwin II of Jerusalem0 decades - 17
Robert I, Duke of Normandy0 decades - 18
Roger I of Sicily0 decades - 19
Peter the Hermit22 decades - 20
Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse0 decades - 21
Odo, Earl of Kentnot measured- - 22
Constance of Arles0 decades - 23
Adhemar of Le Puy22 decades - 24
Bertrade of Montfort20 decades - 25
Robert of Molesme9 decades
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. 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.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.