← Fame through time1200-1209
The 1200s
Whose working lives fell in the 1200s. 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 1200s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
John, King of England3 decades - 2
Fibonacci22 decades - 3
Philip II of France0 decades - 4
Ibn Arabi5 decades - 5
Saint Dominic17 decades - 6
Pope Gregory IX22 decades - 7
Walther von der Vogelweide22 decades - 8
Tamar of Georgia0 decades - 9
Wolfram von Eschenbach18 decades - 10
Saint Sava0 decades - 11
Isabella I of Jerusalem0 decades - 12
Berengaria of Navarre1 decades - 13
Philip of Swabia22 decades - 14
Baldwin I, Latin Emperor10 decades - 15
Alexios IV Angelos0 decades - 16
Alfonso IX of León0 decades - 17
Muhammad II of Khwarazmnot measured- - 18
Shota Rustaveli0 decades - 19
Valdemar II of Denmark0 decades - 20
Theodore I Laskaris0 decades - 21
Jayadeva20 decades - 22
Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester0 decades - 23
Robert Grosseteste19 decades - 24
Ottokar I of Bohemia0 decades - 25Suleyman Shah0 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.