Averroes
Also known as: Ibn Rushd
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.

Contemporaries
1170–1220Wolfram von Eschenbach
?–1183Chrétien de Troyes
1190–1264Vincent de Beauvais
1180–1249William of Auvergne
1157–1199Richard I
1160–1218Simon de Montfort
1138–1204Moses Maimonides
1100–1160Peter Lombard
1167–1216John
1135–1202Joachim of Fiore
1160–1216Innocent III
1060–1134St. Stephen Harding
fl. 1150Gratian
?–1190Ranulf de Glanvill
1100–1154Geoffrey of Monmouth
c. 1181–1226St. Francis of Assisi
fl. 1150Arnaut Daniel
1194–1253St. Clare of Assisi
1182–1253John Carpini
?–1172Cadwaladr
fl. 1150Blondel
fl. 1150Bernard of Morval
1090–1153St. Bernard of Clairvaux
1180–1246Gonzalo de Berceo
?–1173Benjamin of Tudela
1118–1170St. Thomas à Becket
1100–1155Arnold of Brescia
c. 1193–1280St. Albertus Magnus
1197–1253St. Agnes of Assisi
1079–1142Peter Abelard