← 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 - 26
Uthong0 decades - 27
Maria of Portugal3 decades - 28
Joan III, Countess of Burgundynot measured- - 29
Laura de Noves2 decades - 30
Peter II of Sicily0 decades - 31Toqto'a5 decades
- 32
Liu Ji0 decades - 33
Amda Seyon I0 decades - 34
Blanche of Valois0 decades - 35
Margaret I, Countess of Burgundynot measured- - 36
James III of Majorca0 decades - 37
Bartolus de Saxoferrato22 decades - 38
Basil of Trebizondnot measured- - 39
William II of Hainautnot measured- - 40
Andrea Dandolo22 decades - 41
Elizabeth of Poland, Queen of Hungary0 decades - 42
Valdemar III of Denmark0 decades - 43
Andrew, Duke of Calabrianot measured- - 44
Rupert I, Elector Palatine22 decades - 45
Isabella of Valois, Duchess of Bourbon20 decades - 46
Longchenpa3 decades - 47
Irene Palaiologina of Trebizondnot measured- - 48
Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine0 decades - 49
Maria of Navarre0 decades - 50
Song Lian1 decades - 51
Berdi Beg0 decades - 52Chunghye of Goryeonot measured-
- 53
Guillaume Cale20 decades - 54
Gil Álvarez de Albornoz0 decades - 55Margaret of Bohemia, Queen of Hungary0 decades
- 56
Sayyid Ali Hamadani0 decades - 57
Philip of Burgundy22 decades - 58
Eleanor of Portugal0 decades - 59
Guillaume Tirel4 decades - 60
Eleanor of Castile IInot measured- - 61Chungmok0 decades
- 62
Winrich von Kniprode0 decades - 63
Charles, Duke of Durazzonot measured- - 64
Mastino II della Scala0 decades - 65
Bogdan I of Moldavianot measured- - 66Al-Hakim II0 decades
- 67
Geoffroi de Charny1 decades - 68
John II, Burgrave of Nuremberg22 decades - 69
Juan Fernández de Heredia0 decades - 70Al-Mu'tadid Inot measured-
- 71
Bolesław Jerzy of Mazovianot measured- - 72
Agnes Randolph0 decades - 73Kujuk0 decades
- 74
Al-Kamil Shabannot measured- - 75
Humbert II of Viennois0 decades - 76
Gjin Bua Shpatanot measured- - 77
Jean de Roquetaillade0 decades - 78
Rudolf II, Count Palatine of the Rhine22 decades - 79
Leo IV22 decades - 80
Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent21 decades - 81
Hasan Buzurg0 decades - 82Saif ad-Din Abu-Bakrnot measured-
- 83
Umur Beg0 decades - 84Leontios Pilatusnot measured-
- 85
Budashirinot measured- - 86
Hōjō Tokiyukinot measured- - 87
Bolko II the Small8 decades - 88Isabella, Countess of Briennenot measured-
- 89John I, Duke of Bavaria22 decades
- 90
Al-Mudhàffar Hajjínot measured- - 91
Rudolf II16 decades - 92Al-Salih Ismailnot measured-
- 93Elisabeth of Sicily, Duchess of Bavaria0 decades
- 94
Ivan Stephen of Bulgarianot measured- - 95
Yolande Palaeologina of Montferratnot measured- - 96
Sadr al-Dīn Mūsānot measured- - 97
Siemowit III, Duke of Masovianot measured- - 98
Henry IV, Count of Bar0 decades - 99
Ashikaga Tadayoshi0 decades - 100
Niels Ebbesen1 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.