← Fame through time1290-1299
The 1290s
Whose working lives fell in the 1290s. 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 1290s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
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Osman I0 decades - 2
Meister Eckhart12 decades - 3
Pope Clement V22 decades - 4
Albert I of Germany0 decades - 5
Margaret, Maid of Norwaynot measured- - 6
Andronikos II Palaiologos0 decades - 7
Duccio18 decades - 8
Ibn Taymiyyah2 decades - 9
Beatrice Portinari22 decades - 10
Gertrude the Great6 decades - 11
Denis I of Portugalnot measured- - 12
Sancho IV of León and Castile22 decades - 13
Robert, Count of Clermont22 decades - 14
Guido Cavalcanti22 decades - 15
Daniel of Moscow0 decades - 16
Ladislaus IV of Hungary0 decades - 17
Khutulun0 decades - 18
Arghunnot measured- - 19
Władysław I the Elbow-highnot measured- - 20
Rani Padmavati0 decades - 21
Eric II of Norway0 decades - 22
Otto V or III, Duke of Bavaria22 decades - 23
Adolf of Germany22 decades - 24
Charles Martel of Anjou0 decades - 25
Bernard Gui5 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.