← 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
- 26
Kaloyan of Bulgaria0 decades - 27
Hedwig of Silesia0 decades - 28
Llywelyn the Great0 decades - 29
Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France0 decades - 30
Arthur I16 decades - 31
Henry of Flanders1 decades - 32
Ladislaus III of Hungarynot measured- - 33
Hermann von Salza22 decades - 34
Emeric, King of Hungarynot measured- - 35
Henry the Courageousnot measured- - 36
Shinran12 decades - 37Haakon III of Norwaynot measured-
- 38
Stefan the First-Crowned0 decades - 39
Irene Angelina0 decades - 40
Agnes of Meranianot measured- - 41Guttorm of Norwaynot measured-
- 42
Louis I, Duke of Bavaria22 decades - 43
Konstantinos Laskaris0 decades - 44
Agnes of France11 decades - 45
Theobald III, Count of Champagne0 decades - 46
Henry I the Bearded0 decades - 47Al-Afdal ibn Salah ad-Dinnot measured-
- 48
Marie of Champagne21 decades - 49
Bohemond IV of Antioch0 decades - 50
Albert of Riganot measured- - 51
Pierre de Castelnau22 decades - 52
Muqali0 decades - 53
Emperor Ningzong of Songnot measured- - 54
Louis I, Count of Blois22 decades - 55
Minamoto no Yoriie0 decades - 56
Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine22 decades - 57
Jean Bodel19 decades - 58
William I, Count of Holland22 decades - 59
Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki0 decades - 60
Otto I, Count of Burgundy13 decades - 61
Humphrey IV of Toron0 decades - 62
Władysław III Spindleshanksnot measured- - 63
Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg22 decades - 64
Raymond Roger Trencavel0 decades - 65Nicholas Kanabosnot measured-
- 66Temüge0 decades
- 67
Shizuka Gozen0 decades - 68
Peire Vidal2 decades - 69Eudokia Angelinanot measured-
- 70
Vukan Nemanjić of Serbianot measured- - 71Inalchuq0 decades
- 72
Rudolph II, Count of Habsburg21 decades - 73
Der von Kürenberg3 decades - 74Kilij Arslan III0 decades
- 75
Geoffrey I of Villehardouinnot measured- - 76
Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke0 decades - 77Dharanindravarman II0 decades
- 78Robert of Chester1 decades
- 79
Birger Brosa0 decades - 80Benoît de Sainte-Maure0 decades
- 81Robert de Clari15 decades
- 82
Roger of Howden4 decades - 83
Renaud I, Count of Dammartin18 decades - 84
Phillipe de Plessisnot measured- - 85Muhammad Aufi0 decades
- 86
Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada0 decades - 87Eustace the Monk0 decades
- 88
Gilbert Horalnot measured- - 89
Henry I, Count of Anhalt22 decades - 90
Odo III, Duke of Burgundy0 decades - 91Wanyan Yongjinot measured-
- 92
Henry III, Duke of Limburg22 decades - 93
Guy of Thouars14 decades - 94
Emperor Zhangzong of Jinnot measured- - 95
Nasu no Yoichi0 decades - 96Otto VIII of Wittelsbach0 decades
- 97
Yehuda Alharizi19 decades - 98Zhao Rukuonot measured-
- 99
Alfonso II, Count of Provence21 decades - 100
Edmund of Abingdon0 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.