← 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
Henry the Young King0 decades - 2
Alfonso VIII of Castile21 decades - 3
Alphonse I of Aragon16 decades - 4
Alfonso VII of Castile0 decades - 5
Urraca of León0 decades - 6
Sancho III of Castile17 decades - 7
Stefan Nemanja0 decades - 8
Al-Adil Inot measured- - 9
Antoku0 decades - 10
Sancho VII of Navarre9 decades - 11
Ramiro II of Aragon0 decades - 12
Leopold IIInot measured- - 13
Peter II of Courtenay0 decades - 14
Petronilla of Aragon0 decades - 15
Aimery of Cyprus0 decades - 16
Sancho VI of Navarre0 decades - 17
Joscelin I, Count of Edessanot measured- - 18
Takakuranot measured- - 19
Władysław II the Exilenot measured- - 20
Tobanot measured- - 21
García Ramírez of Navarre0 decades - 22
Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavarianot measured- - 23
Al-Musta'li0 decades - 24
Emperor Horikawa0 decades - 25
Kerbogha2 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.