← 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
Pope Innocent III22 decades - 2
Pope Alexander III22 decades - 3
Roger II of Sicily0 decades - 4
Pope Honorius III19 decades - 5
Enrico Dandolo1 decades - 6
Pope Innocent II13 decades - 7
Conrad of Montferrat6 decades - 8
Hugues de Payens0 decades - 9
William II of Sicily0 decades - 10
Saint Rosalia0 decades - 11
Peter Lombard22 decades - 12
Pope Celestine III2 decades - 13
Joachim of Fiore5 decades - 14
Pope Gregory VIII0 decades - 15
Constance, Queen of Sicilynot measured- - 16
Pope Honorius II0 decades - 17
Pope Lucius III3 decades - 18
Tancred, King of Sicilynot measured- - 19
Pope Celestine II0 decades - 20
Pope Anastasius IV0 decades - 21
Benedetto Antelami16 decades - 22
Bonanno Pisano0 decades - 23
Buscheto0 decades - 24
Biduino0 decades - 25Stephen of Pisanot 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.