← 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
John, King of England3 decades - 2
Edward I of England10 decades - 3
Henry III of England5 decades - 4
Alexander III of Scotland0 decades - 5
Alexander II of Scotland0 decades - 6
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd2 decades - 7
Llywelyn the Great0 decades - 8Dafydd ap Gruffudd0 decades
- 9
Dafydd ap Llywelyn0 decades - 10Marie de Coucy0 decades
- 11
Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchannot measured- - 12
Roger Mortimer de Chirknot measured- - 13
Alasdair Óg of Islaynot measured- - 14Mary II, Countess of Menteithnot measured-
- 15Philip d Aubignynot 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.