← Fame through time1250-1259
The 1250s
Whose working lives fell in the 1250s. 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 1250s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Kublai Khan19 decades - 2
Pope Celestine V0 decades - 3
Alexander Nevsky17 decades - 4
Roger Bacon22 decades - 5
Bonaventure11 decades - 6
Rudolf I of Germany22 decades - 7
Alfonso X of Castile1 decades - 8
Michael VIII Palaiologos0 decades - 9
Hulagu Khan0 decades - 10
Eleanor of Provence12 decades - 11
Pope Nicholas III3 decades - 12
Pope John XXI0 decades - 13
Nichiren15 decades - 14
Conrad IV of Germany22 decades - 15
Baibarsnot measured- - 16
Ariq Böke0 decades - 17
Ibn al-Nafis0 decades - 18
William of Rubruck5 decades - 19
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd2 decades - 20
Pope Innocent V22 decades - 21
Margaret of Provence0 decades - 22
Jalal ud din Firuz Khaljinot measured- - 23
Baldwin II, Latin Emperor22 decades - 24
William II of Holland0 decades - 25
Pope Martin IV22 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.