← 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 - 26
Sancho II of Portugal0 decades - 27
Aybak2 decades - 28
As-Salih Najm al-din Ayyubnot measured- - 29
Mechthild of Magdeburg14 decades - 30
Agnes of Bohemia0 decades - 31
Frederick II, Duke of Austria22 decades - 32
Kaykhusraw II0 decades - 33
Henry of Germanynot measured- - 34
Peter of Verona21 decades - 35
Henry II22 decades - 36
Emperor Lizong of Songnot measured- - 37
Al-Qurtubi0 decades - 38
Emperor Shijōnot measured- - 39Ibn Khallikan13 decades
- 40
Otto II Wittelsbachnot measured- - 41
Maria Laskarinanot measured- - 42
Busiri0 decades - 43
Doquz Khatun0 decades - 44
Jia Sidao0 decades - 45
Treniota0 decades - 46
Al-Adil IInot measured- - 47
Qin Jiushao5 decades - 48
Muiz ud din Bahramnot measured- - 49
Shibannot measured- - 50
Hethum I0 decades - 51
Michael II Komnenos Doukas0 decades - 52
Thomas II, Regent of Savoynot measured- - 53
Giacomo da Lentini14 decades - 54
Henry de Bracton0 decades - 55
William II of Villehardouin0 decades - 56
Ottone Visconti0 decades - 57Kaliman I of Bulgarianot measured-
- 58
Margaret of Bourbon, Queen of Navarre0 decades - 59
John I, Margrave of Brandenburg22 decades - 60
Dafydd ap Llywelyn0 decades - 61
Toros Roslin0 decades - 62
Conrad I of Hochstaden17 decades - 63
Guan Hanqing9 decades - 64
Bettisia Gozzadini0 decades - 65
Muqinot measured- - 66
Master Gerhard19 decades - 67
Philip I, Count of Savoy22 decades - 68
Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd Al-Haqqnot measured- - 69
Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandalenot measured- - 70
Konrad von Thüringen9 decades - 71
Ingeborg Eriksdotter of Swedennot measured- - 72
Ibn Said al-Maghribi0 decades - 73
Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy0 decades - 74
Fakhr-al-Din Iraqinot measured- - 75
Margaret of Geneva0 decades - 76Godan Khan0 decades
- 77Sturla Þórðarson0 decades
- 78
Bonaventura Berlinghieri0 decades - 79
Guido Bonatti22 decades - 80Archambaud IX of Bourbon0 decades
- 81
Bu Ali Shah Qalandar0 decades - 82
Barnim I0 decades - 83
Adolf IV of Holstein0 decades - 84
Hermann II21 decades - 85
Coloman of Galicia-Lodomerianot measured- - 86
Ala al-Din Muhammad IIInot measured- - 87
Casimir I of Kuyavianot measured- - 88
Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din Omarnot measured- - 89
Dervorguilla of Galloway0 decades - 90
John of Procida7 decades - 91
Mikhail Khorobritnot measured- - 92Sadr al-Din al-Qunawinot measured-
- 93
Beatrice of Savoy, Marchioness of Saluzzo0 decades - 94
Arghun Aqa0 decades - 95Eljigidei0 decades
- 96Dündar Bey0 decades
- 97
Mieszko II the Fatnot measured- - 98
John I de Balliolnot measured- - 99
Salomea of Polandnot measured- - 100
Bolesław I of Masovianot measured-
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.