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← 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. 1Pope Boniface VIII1235-1303 · Italy · Religious Figures21 decades
  2. 2Pope Celestine V1215-1296 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  3. 3Pope Gregory IX1170-1241 · Italy · Religious Figures22 decades
  4. 4Pope Gregory X1210-1276 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  5. 5Pope Innocent IVdied 1254 · Italy · Religious Figures22 decades
  6. 6Pope Nicholas III1215-1280 · Italy · Religious Figures3 decades
  7. 7Pope Alexander IV1200-1261 · Italy · Religious Figures13 decades
  8. 8Pope Adrian V1205-1276 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  9. 9Pope Benedict XI1240-1304 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  10. 10Pope Celestine IVdied 1241 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  11. 11Pope Honorius IV1210-1287 · Italy · Religious Figures0 decades
  12. 12Nicholas V1260-1333 · Italy · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  13. 13Jacobus da Varagine1228-1298 · Italy · Religious Figures0 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.