← 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
Adi ibn Musafir0 decades - 2
Ibn Qudamah0 decades - 3
Ahmad Ghazali0 decades - 4
Richard of Saint Victor0 decades - 5
Amalric of Bena0 decades - 6
Peter of Bruys21 decades - 7
Honorius Augustodunensis1 decades - 8
Eleazar of Wormsnot measured- - 9Raghib Isfahani0 decades
- 10
Gilbert de La Porrée0 decades - 11
William of St-Thierry0 decades - 12
Abd as-Salam ibn Mashish al-Alaminot measured- - 13
Tanchelm0 decades - 14Peter Cantor0 decades
- 15Muhammad ibn Tayfour Sajawandinot measured-
- 16Tobiah ben Eliezer15 decades
- 17Jamal al-Din al-Ghaznawinot measured-
- 18William of Auxerre19 decades
- 19Robert Pullen0 decades
- 20Nicholas Mesarites0 decades
- 21Peter of Poitiers3 decades
- 22Abu-l-Qāsim ibn Fīrruh Shāṭibīnot measured-
- 23Geoffrey of Auxerre0 decades
- 24
Peter of Corbeil20 decades - 25
Gottfried von Spitzenberg0 decades - 26Andrew of Saint Victor0 decades
- 27
Achard of Saint-Victor0 decades - 28Walter of Mortagne13 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.