← Fame through time1240-1249
The 1240s
Whose working lives fell in the 1240s. 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 1240s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Rumi22 decades - 2
Louis IX of France12 decades - 3
Henry III of England5 decades - 4
Batu Khan2 decades - 5
Nasreddin8 decades - 6
Möngke Khan0 decades - 7
Saadi Shirazi0 decades - 8
Güyük Khan0 decades - 9
Pope Gregory X0 decades - 10
James I of Aragon0 decades - 11
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester0 decades - 12
Pope Innocent IV22 decades - 13
Razia Sultana0 decades - 14
Berke22 decades - 15
Al-Musta'sim0 decades - 16
Béla IV of Hungary0 decades - 17
Shajar al-Durr0 decades - 18
Afonso III of Portugal0 decades - 19
Richard of Cornwall18 decades - 20
Pope Adrian V0 decades - 21
Haji Bektash Veli0 decades - 22
Wenceslaus I of Bohemia0 decades - 23
Birger Jarl0 decades - 24
Isabella of England0 decades - 25
Pope Honorius IV0 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.