← Fame through time1100-1199
The 12th century
Whose working lives fell in the 12th century. 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 12th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Chrétien de Troyes21 decades - 2
Marie de Francenot measured- - 3
William IX, Duke of Aquitainenot measured- - 4
Suger22 decades - 5
Bertran de Born8 decades - 6
Arnaut Daniel7 decades - 7
Marcabru6 decades - 8
Gregory VIII22 decades - 9
Rabbeinu Tam21 decades - 10
Isaac the Blind20 decades - 11
Robert of Torigni3 decades - 12
Guiraut de Bornelh0 decades - 13
Folquet de Marseille0 decades - 14Bernard Silvestris0 decades
- 15Rigordnot measured-
- 16
Azalaïs de Porcairaguesnot measured- - 17
Aimery of Limoges0 decades - 18Guigo II0 decades
- 19Raymond de Sauvetât1 decades
- 20Odo of Deuil0 decades
- 21Conon de Béthune0 decades
- 22
Cercamon0 decades - 23Joseph Kimhi21 decades
- 24Ralph of Caen0 decades
- 25
Henry of Marcy0 decades - 26
Hugh Primas0 decades - 27
Blacatz0 decades - 28Zerachiah haLevi of Girona22 decades
- 29Guillaume Adam9 decades
- 30Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne0 decades
- 31Hugh of Flavigny0 decades
- 32Alberic of Ostia0 decades
- 33Odo of Cambrai0 decades
- 34Adam of Perseigne0 decades
- 35Gilles de Corbeil0 decades
- 36
Eberhard of Béthune0 decades - 37Gautier d'Arras0 decades
- 38
Pierre de Bar19 decades - 39
Guiraudo lo Ros0 decades
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. 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.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.