← 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
Genghis Khan22 decades - 2
Richard I of England0 decades - 3
Henry II of England12 decades - 4
Stephen, King of England0 decades - 5
Empress Matilda14 decades - 6
Louis VII of France5 decades - 7
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor22 decades - 8
Manuel I Komnenos0 decades - 9
Louis VI of France0 decades - 10
David I of Scotland0 decades - 11
Afonso I of Portugal0 decades - 12
Guy of Lusignannot measured- - 13
Henry V, Holy Roman Emperornot measured- - 14
Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou13 decades - 15
Muhammad of Ghor0 decades - 16
Roger II of Sicily0 decades - 17
Conrad III of Germanynot measured- - 18
Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalemnot measured- - 19
Matilda of Scotland2 decades - 20
Raynald of Châtillon22 decades - 21
Emperor Huizong of Song3 decades - 22
Fulk, King of Jerusalemnot measured- - 23
Alexios III Angelos0 decades - 24
Alexios V Doukas0 decades - 25
Amalric of Jerusalem0 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.