← Fame through time1220-1229
The 1220s
Whose working lives fell in the 1220s. 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 1220s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor22 decades - 2
Ögedei Khan0 decades - 3
Clare of Assisi22 decades - 4
Louis VIII of France0 decades - 5
Tolui2 decades - 6
Blanche of Castile22 decades - 7
Shams Tabrizi0 decades - 8
Iltutmish9 decades - 9
Isabella of Angoulême0 decades - 10
Isabella II of Jerusalem0 decades - 11
Pope Clement IV22 decades - 12Sunjata Keïtanot measured-
- 13
John III Doukas Vatatzes0 decades - 14
Nahmanidesnot measured- - 15
Pope Urban IV11 decades - 16
Töregene Khatun0 decades - 17
Kayqubad I0 decades - 18
Afonso II of Portugal0 decades - 19
Henry II the Pravoslavnot measured- - 20
Sorghaghtani Beki0 decades - 21
Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria0 decades - 22
Muhammad I of Granada0 decades - 23Al-Mustansir II of Caironot measured-
- 24
Yaroslav II of Vladimirnot measured- - 25
Rusudan of Georgia0 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.