1140s births

Persian poet

Persian Sufi poet (c. 1145 – c. 1221)

King of Alba from 1165 to 1214

King of Hungary and Croatia from 1172 to 1196

ruler of Ghurid Sultanate from 1173 to 1206

12th century Italian nobleman and major participant in the Third Crusade

medieval clergyman and historian

crusader and noble of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

French theologian

Occitan troubadour

wife of Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

Prince of Antioch

female troubadour (fl. c. 1175 or c. 1212)

Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman (1146-1219)

Countess suo jure of Flanders (1145-1194)

Danish queen consort (1140-1198)

Greek bishop

Count of Holland from 1157 to 1190

Duke of Bohemia (c. 1142 – 1189)

Queen consort of Galicia, León and Castile, Countess consort of Provence and Countess consort of Everstein

Queen of Jerusalem

Persian Muslim scholar (c. 1145 – 1234)

Queen of Hungary

noble of the Holy Roman Empire

Duke of Saxony and Count of Anhalt

the Count of Jaffa and Ascalon, the eldest son of William V, Marquess of Montferrat and Judith of Babenberg

Sultan of Ghurid Empire

French countess

Duke of Limburg and Count of Arlon

Duke of Lorraine

Mistress of King Henry II of England

Sicilian admiral

Polish noble

Japanese poet

Duke of Greater Poland and Poznań

Swedish queen

Est 1155 - 1209

lord of Orange and Aumelas

Czech princess

Scottish prince and earl of Huntingdon (1152–1219)

English chronicler

Kayı chieftain (r. 1200-14)

founder of the Lordship of Lippe and the towns of Lippstadt and Lemgo (died 1224)

Prince of Smolensk and Prince of Novgorod

Wife of Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke

Old Occitan troubadour

English scholastic philosopher and astronomer

French troubadour

Count of Nassau (1176-1198)

thumb|Shunkan depicted on an 1887 vertical diptych. was a Japanese monk who, after taking part in the Shishigatani plot to overthrow Taira no Kiyomori, was exiled along with two others to Kikai-ga-shima. His story is featured in the Heike monogatari, and in a number of traditional derivative works, including the Noh play Shunkan and jōruri play Heike Nyogo-ga-shima. Twentieth century authors Kan Kikuchi and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa also produced works entitled Shunkan.

Portuguese lord and writer

German Margravine of Meissen (c.1140–1203)

French Cistercian abbot

Count of Meulan

French trobairitz

Egyptian poet, writer & administrator in Ayyubid dynasty

Anglo-Scottish theologian, writer and Premonstratensian and Carthusian monk

French poet

Catholic cardinal

(c.1149-1181)