← Fame through time1200-1299
The 13th century
Whose working lives fell in the 13th 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 13th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Theobald I of Navarre0 decades - 2
Adam de la Halle4 decades - 3Rutebeuf22 decades
- 4
Jean Bodel19 decades - 5
Jean de Meun18 decades - 6
Guillaume de Lorris22 decades - 7
William II of Villehardouin0 decades - 8
Guillaume de Sonnac1 decades - 9Robert de Clari15 decades
- 10
Peire Vidal2 decades - 11Baldwin of Avesnes4 decades
- 12Peter of Vaux de Cernay0 decades
- 13Alberic of Trois-Fontaines0 decades
- 14
Adenes Le Roi14 decades - 15
Gaucelm Faidit1 decades - 16
Aimeric de Peguilhan0 decades - 17
Arnaut de Mareuil0 decades - 18Jean Renart11 decades
- 19
Eudes Rigaud0 decades - 20Jacob Anatolinot measured-
- 21Moses ibn Tibbonnot measured-
- 22Colin Muset0 decades
- 23Berechiah ha-Nakdan10 decades
- 24Lombarda16 decades
- 25
Bérard de Got0 decades - 26John Halgren of Abbevillenot measured-
- 27
Simon de Beaulieu11 decades - 28
Ademar lo Negre0 decades - 29Philippe Mouskes0 decades
- 30
Guilhem de Montanhagol0 decades - 31Guillelma de Rosers0 decades
- 32Bernart Sicart de Maruèjolsnot measured-
- 33Ademar Jordannot measured-
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.