← Fame through time1230-1239
The 1230s
Whose working lives fell in the 1230s. 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 1230s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Anthony of Padua22 decades - 2
Albertus Magnus22 decades - 3
Elizabeth of Hungary20 decades - 4
Ferdinand III of Castile22 decades - 5
Nasir al-Din al-Tusinot measured- - 6
Alexander II of Scotland0 decades - 7
Pope Alexander IV13 decades - 8
Dōgen2 decades - 9
Mindaugasnot measured- - 10
Ghiyas ud din Balbannot measured- - 11
Daniel of Galicia0 decades - 12
Matthew Paris22 decades - 13
Haakon IV of Norway0 decades - 14
Manco Cápac0 decades - 15
Pope Celestine IV0 decades - 16
Theobald I of Navarre0 decades - 17
François Grimaldi0 decades - 18
Orda Khannot measured- - 19
Zakariya al-Qazwini0 decades - 20
Baijunot measured- - 21
Zhang Sanfengnot measured- - 22
Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse3 decades - 23
Henry Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia0 decades - 24
Tsuchimikadonot measured- - 25
Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu0 decades - 26
Juntoku0 decades - 27
Elisabeth of Swabia14 decades - 28
Villard de Honnecourt19 decades - 29
Beatrice of Savoy0 decades - 30
Ibn al-Baitar0 decades - 31
Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence0 decades - 32
Go-Horikawa0 decades - 33
Emperor Chūkyōnot measured- - 34
Otto the Child22 decades - 35
Robert de Boron16 decades - 36
Hadewijch4 decades - 37
Raymond Nonnatus0 decades - 38
Peter II, Count of Savoy3 decades - 39
Margaret II, Countess of Flanders20 decades - 40
Gebre Mesqel Lalibelanot measured- - 41
Robert de Sorbon0 decades - 42
Joan, Countess of Flandersnot measured- - 43
Ulrich von Liechtenstein20 decades - 44
Richard of Chichester0 decades - 45
Bele Regis Notariusnot measured- - 46
Abul Hasan ash-Shadhilinot measured- - 47
Philip Hurepel20 decades - 48
Stephen Vladislav I of Serbianot measured- - 49
Johannes de Sacrobosco0 decades - 50
Guillaume de Lorris22 decades - 51
Ahmad al-Badawi0 decades - 52
Pierre Basile2 decades - 53
John I of Trebizondnot measured- - 54
Margaret of Austria, Queen of Bohemia22 decades - 55
Bohemond V of Antioch0 decades - 56Ahmad Fanakatinot measured-
- 57
Canute II of Swedennot measured- - 58
Kunigunde of Hohenstaufen0 decades - 59
Valdemar the Youngnot measured- - 60
Sang Nila Utama0 decades - 61
Hangaku Gozennot measured- - 62
Mafalda of Portugal0 decades - 63
Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy0 decades - 64
Agnes of Assisi0 decades - 65Layamon22 decades
- 66
Liang Kai0 decades - 67
Isabel Marshal0 decades - 68Bartholomew Anglicus0 decades
- 69
Baidar8 decades - 70
Irene Laskarinanot measured- - 71
Gonzalo de Berceo0 decades - 72
Al-Baydawi0 decades - 73Emperor Modi of Jinnot measured-
- 74
Guillaume de Sonnac1 decades - 75
Floris IV, Count of Holland0 decades - 76
Mohammad Abu Zakariya Yahyanot measured- - 77Smilets of Bulgarianot measured-
- 78Demetrius of Montferrat0 decades
- 79
Matilda II of Boulognenot measured- - 80
Sviatoslav IV of Vladimirnot measured- - 81
William II of Dampierre0 decades - 82
Agnes of the Palatinatenot measured- - 83
Sordello de Mantouenot measured- - 84Berengaria of Leónnot measured-
- 85Emperor Aizong of Jinnot measured-
- 86Roger of Wendover16 decades
- 87Nikephoros Blemmydes0 decades
- 88
Kebek0 decades - 89Tuka Temürnot measured-
- 90Yolanda de Courtenaynot measured-
- 91
Kirakos Gandzaketsi0 decades - 92
Vykintasnot measured- - 93
Philip of Montfort0 decades - 94
Beatrice of Nazareth0 decades
- 95
Anne of Bohemia, Duchess of Silesia17 decades - 96
Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukharinot measured- - 97
Otto de la Roche0 decades - 98Al-Altannot measured-
- 99
Marie of Hohenstaufennot measured- - 100
Ibn Malik1 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.