← Fame through time1300-1399
The 14th century
Whose working lives fell in the 14th 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 14th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
William Wallace22 decades - 2
Edward III of England11 decades - 3
Robert the Bruce22 decades - 4
Edward II of England0 decades - 5
John Wycliffe19 decades - 6
Edward the Black Prince21 decades - 7
William of Ockham17 decades - 8
David II of Scotland0 decades - 9
Robert II of Scotland0 decades - 10
Duns Scotus22 decades - 11
Robert III of Scotland0 decades - 12
Julian of Norwich9 decades - 13
Owain Glyndŵr0 decades - 14
Wat Tyler22 decades - 15
Philippa of Lancaster1 decades - 16
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York10 decades - 17
Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of Marchnot measured- - 18
John Ball22 decades - 19
Joan of Kent9 decades - 20
Henry Percynot measured- - 21
Hugh Despenser the Younger0 decades - 22
William Langland15 decades - 23
Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster0 decades - 24
James Douglas, Lord of Douglasnot measured- - 25Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of Marchnot 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.