← Fame through time1420-1429
The 1420s
Whose working lives fell in the 1420s. 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 1420s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Henry V of England1 decades - 2
Donatello22 decades - 3
Jan van Eyck16 decades - 4
Fra Angelico21 decades - 5
Cosimo de' Medici22 decades - 6
Mehmed I0 decades - 7
James I of Scotland3 decades - 8
Prince Henry the Navigator15 decades - 9
Masaccio22 decades - 10
Ulugh Beg15 decades - 11
Charles, Duke of Orléans22 decades - 12
Pachacuti9 decades - 13
1st Dalai Lamanot measured- - 14
John VIII Palaiologos0 decades - 15
Rogier van der Weyden13 decades - 16
Edward, King of Portugalnot measured- - 17
Philippa of England0 decades - 18
Blanche I of Navarre0 decades - 19
Filippo Maria Visconti22 decades - 20
John of Capistrano17 decades - 21
Barbara of Cilli0 decades - 22
John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford17 decades - 23
Ikkyū Sōjun0 decades - 24
Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester0 decades - 25
John Dunstaple0 decades - 26
La Hire0 decades - 27
Karni Mata0 decades - 28
Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence19 decades - 29
Mark of Ephesus6 decades - 30
Shōkōnot measured- - 31
Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli22 decades - 32
Cymburgis of Masovianot measured- - 33
Álvaro de Luna, Constable of Castile22 decades - 34
Arthur III, Duke of Brittany0 decades - 35
Flavio Biondo22 decades - 36
Fra Mauro22 decades - 37
Contessina de' Bardi0 decades - 38
Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson0 decades - 39
Peter, Duke of Coimbranot measured- - 40
Elisabeth, Duchess of Luxembourgnot measured- - 41
Michelle of Valoisnot measured- - 42
João Gonçalves Zarco0 decades - 43
Sassetta22 decades - 44
Chimalpopoca6 decades - 45
Dietrich, Count of Oldenburgnot measured- - 46
Ashikaga Yoshinori0 decades - 47
Ashikaga Yoshimochi0 decades - 48
Alexander I of Georgianot measured- - 49
Ashikaga Yoshikazunot measured- - 50
Basil Valentine22 decades - 51
Antoninus of Florence11 decades - 52
John Cantius0 decades - 53
Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland22 decades - 54
Petr Chelčický0 decades - 55
Marie of Burgundy0 decades - 56
Joan of France, Duchess of Brittany22 decades - 57
Tvrtko II of Bosnianot measured- - 58
Andronikos Palaiologos, Lord of Thessalonica0 decades - 59
Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrückennot measured- - 60
Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury2 decades - 61
John V22 decades - 62
Hafiz-i Abru0 decades - 63
Cristoforo Moro22 decades - 64
Henry XVI, Duke of Bavaria3 decades - 65
Akşemseddin0 decades - 66
Odette de Champdivers7 decades - 67
Ahmad ibn Arabshah0 decades - 68
Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March20 decades - 69
Bonne of Artois0 decades - 70
Alain Chartier19 decades - 71
Fernão Lopes0 decades - 72
Ponhea Yat0 decades - 73
Jean Poton de Xaintrailles0 decades - 74
Francesco Bussone0 decades - 75
Zbigniew Oleśnicki0 decades - 76
Çandarlı Ibrahim Pashanot measured- - 77
James II, Count of Urgell22 decades - 78
Jonah of Moscownot measured- - 79
Peter I, Count of Saint-Polnot measured- - 80
Şerafeddin Kadirnot measured- - 81
John IV22 decades - 82Gregory III of Constantinoplenot measured-
- 83Yangnyeong0 decades
- 84
Cristoforo Buondelmonti13 decades - 85
Alexandra of Lithuanianot measured- - 86
Antonio Beccadelli22 decades - 87Al-Mustakfi IInot measured-
- 88
Catherine11 decades - 89
Niccolò Piccinino0 decades - 90
Bonne of Berry13 decades - 91
Jean Bureau22 decades - 92
John Fortescue22 decades - 93
Parisina Malatesta0 decades - 94
Ahmed Shah I0 decades - 95
William the Victorious, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg0 decades - 96
Konrad von Erlichshausen11 decades - 97Jalaluddin al-Mahallinot measured-
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James of the Marches22 decades - 99
Paul von Rusdorf7 decades - 100Koca Mehmed Nizamüddin Paşanot measured-
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.