Browsing People by period: 1100 – 1200 (32 records)
  • 1079 – 1142, French

    Philosopher and theologian. He was famous for passionate love (Heloise), but also for reintroducing logic to Europe. At different times, both his passion and his logic led to tragic complications: he was assaulted and castrated by angry relatives of Heloise and repeatedly charged with heresy by different Church authorities.

  • 1033 – 1109, Italian

    Theologian, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093, and later Saint. As a strong supporter of the primacy of Church over state, he battled with several English kings. But he is best known as the author of a logical argument for the existence of God known as the ontological proof which showed that he valued logic as well as Church authority.

  • 1100 – 1155, Italian

    Roman Catholic priest, critic of church wealth, worldliness, and theocratic rule from Rome. He was ejected from Italy, lived in France and Zurich, then returned to Rome in 1143 to participate in a rebellion against the Pope, which aimed to recreate the ancient Roman republic. When this effort failed, he fled, but was captured and executed.

  • 1072 – 1162, Arab

    Arab physician. His work in Arab Spain, at that time one of the great centers of world culture, expressed the value of careful observation and a systematic approach to the healing arts.

  • 1126 – 1198, Spanish

    Leading Arab philosopher and physician. His metaphysics and commentaries on Aristotle enormously influenced the Western as well as Islamic medieval world and Averroism quickly became controversial. Like others of his era, he valued both faith and logic and tried to integrate the two.

  • 1118 – 1170, English

    Priest, Saint. Legend tells us that he was a friend and loyal servant of King Henry II of England. After appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury, however, he became a zealous defender of the rights and prerogatives of the Church. Henry muttered: "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?" Four of his knights rode off to murder the Archbishop at the alter of Canterbury Cathedral, and Henry penitentially flogged himself at the tomb of his former friend.

  • ? – 1173, Spanish

    Traveling rabbi. He was the first to reach Far East.

  • 1090 – 1153, French
  • fl. 1150, French

    Priest. He lived at the famous monastery of Cluny and wrote De Contemptu Murdi, or The Contempt of the World, a poem that was later adapted for hymns.

  • fl. 1150, French

    Minstrel. He helped rescue his master, King Richard the Lion-Hearted of England, and became a legendary exemplar of faithfulness.

  • 1030 – 1101, German
  • ? – 1172, Welsh
  • 1083 – 1148, Byzantine

    Byzantine princess and author of The Alexiod, a history of her father, the Emperor Alexius I Comnenus. Her colorful career began with murderous plotting against her brother, followed by retirement from court, and an embrace of a more contemplative life of writing history (The Alexiod). She seemed to epitomize a society devoted to ambition, intrigue, plots, violence, ruthlessness, wealth, power, pleasure, fame, personal glory, and selfishness, but also suffused with religion and tempered by a high literary and artistic culture.

  • fl. 1150, French

    Troubadour to Richard the Lion-hearted. His songs of chivalry and love were much prized.

  • ? – 1183, French
  • fl. 1200, Indian

    Philosopher. He was an important thinker and logician, and contributed to the Nyaya and Vaisesika schools of Hindu thought.

  • 1100 – 1154, Welsh

    He was an early source for the King Arthur legend.

  • 1058 – 1111, Iranian

    Thinker, writer, mystic. He became a Sufi, established a religious community, and became very influential.

  • ? – 1190, English
  • fl. 1150, Italian