← 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
Hartmann von Aue22 decades - 2
Otto of Freising22 decades - 3
Hendrik van Veldeke0 decades - 4
Elizabeth of Schönau0 decades - 5
Archpoet0 decades - 6Theophilus Presbyter0 decades
- 7
Dietmar von Aist16 decades - 8
Ekkehard of Aura15 decades - 9
Friedrich von Hausen18 decades - 10Arnold of Lübeck20 decades
- 11Eilhart von Oberge0 decades
- 12Eckebert0 decades
- 13Anselm of Havelberg0 decades
- 14Ezzonot measured-
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.