← Fame through time1340-1349
The 1340s
Whose working lives fell in the 1340s. 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 1340s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Edward III of England11 decades - 2
Giovanni Boccaccio22 decades - 3
Casimir III the Great0 decades - 4
Philippa of Hainault12 decades - 5
Alfonso XI of Castile and Leonnot measured- - 6
Stefan Dušan0 decades - 7
Pope Urban V22 decades - 8
Joan II of Navarre0 decades - 9
Ashikaga Takauji0 decades - 10
Firuz Shah Tughlaq0 decades - 11
Sergius of Radonezh0 decades - 12
Cola di Rienzo10 decades - 13
Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster0 decades - 14
Bonne of Luxembourg20 decades - 15
Tribhuwana Wijayatunggadewinot measured- - 16
Jeanne d'Évreux21 decades - 17
Kōgonnot measured- - 18
Peter I0 decades - 19
Harihara I1 decades - 20
Ibn al-Khatib0 decades - 21
Philip III of Navarre0 decades - 22
Anna of Savoy0 decades - 23
Eleanor de Guzmánnot measured- - 24
Süleyman Paşa0 decades - 25
Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut0 decades
How to read these rankings
- People sit in their own time. Everyone is placed in the century their working life belongs to, and never in one that came after their death.
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record, read across every language rather than one. 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. Those decades are closed, so each curve is measured once and kept.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, or a name belongs to more than one notable person, we would rather show nothing than guess.