← 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
Francis of Assisi22 decades - 2
Thomas Aquinas22 decades - 3
Marco Polo22 decades - 4
Rumi22 decades - 5
Kublai Khan19 decades - 6
John, King of England3 decades - 7
Osman I0 decades - 8
Fibonacci22 decades - 9
Edward I of England10 decades - 10
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperornot measured- - 11
Louis IX of France12 decades - 12
Anthony of Padua22 decades - 13
Ögedei Khan0 decades - 14
Pope Boniface VIII21 decades - 15
Pope Celestine V0 decades - 16
Henry III of England5 decades - 17
Philip II of France0 decades - 18
Albertus Magnus22 decades - 19
Ibn Arabi5 decades - 20
Snorri Sturluson13 decades - 21
Alexander Nevsky17 decades - 22
Saint Dominic17 decades - 23
Roger Bacon22 decades - 24
Batu Khan2 decades - 25
Meister Eckhart12 decades - 26
Clare of Assisi22 decades - 27
Nasreddin8 decades - 28
Bonaventure11 decades - 29
Jochi5 decades - 30
Pope Gregory IX22 decades - 31
Pope Clement V22 decades - 32
Ertuğrulnot measured- - 33
Elizabeth of Hungary20 decades - 34
Louis VIII of France0 decades - 35
Pope John XXII22 decades - 36
Möngke Khan0 decades - 37
Rudolf I of Germanynot measured- - 38
Saadi Shirazi0 decades - 39
Chagatai Khan0 decades - 40
Philip III of France0 decades - 41
Tolui2 decades - 42
Ferdinand III of Castile22 decades - 43
Güyük Khan0 decades - 44
Pope Gregory X0 decades - 45
Alexander III of Scotland0 decades - 46
Walther von der Vogelweide22 decades - 47
Alfonso X of Castile1 decades - 48
Tamar of Georgia0 decades - 49
Nasir al-Din al-Tusinot measured- - 50
Ramon Llull3 decades - 51
Subutai2 decades - 52
Charles I of Anjou13 decades - 53
Eleanor of Castilenot measured- - 54
Michael VIII Palaiologos0 decades - 55
Blanche of Castile22 decades - 56
Albert I of Germany0 decades - 57
Hulagu Khan0 decades - 58
Pope Nicholas IV20 decades - 59
Margaret, Maid of Norwaynot measured- - 60
Cimabue22 decades - 61
Madhvacharya0 decades - 62
James I of Aragon0 decades - 63
John of Scotlandnot measured- - 64
Alexander II of Scotland0 decades - 65
Shams Tabrizi0 decades - 66
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester0 decades - 67
Ottokar II of Bohemia0 decades - 68
Eleanor of Provence12 decades - 69
Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperornot measured- - 70
Pope Innocent IV22 decades - 71
Peter III of Aragon21 decades - 72
Pope Nicholas III3 decades - 73
Andronikos II Palaiologos0 decades - 74
Razia Sultana0 decades - 75
Wolfram von Eschenbach18 decades - 76
Pope Alexander IV13 decades - 77
Iltutmish9 decades - 78
Duccio18 decades - 79
Pope John XXI0 decades - 80
Yunus Emre3 decades - 81
Saint Sava0 decades - 82
Berke22 decades - 83
Ibn Taymiyyah2 decades - 84
Isabella I of Jerusalem0 decades - 85
Conradin22 decades - 86
Dōgen2 decades - 87
Andrew II of Hungary0 decades - 88
Mindaugasnot measured- - 89
Berengaria of Navarre1 decades - 90
Al-Musta'sim0 decades - 91
Isabella of Angoulême0 decades - 92
Beatrice Portinari22 decades - 93
Béla IV of Hungary0 decades - 94
Nichiren15 decades - 95
Conrad IV of Germany22 decades - 96
Baibarsnot measured- - 97
Ariq Böke0 decades - 98
Shajar al-Durr0 decades - 99
Philip of Swabia22 decades - 100
Isabella II of Jerusalem0 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.