12th-century births

pope of the Catholic Church from 1227 to 1241

12th century French poet and trouvère

pope of the Catholic Church from 1254 to 1261

English archbishop and martyr, 1119/1120–1170

king of Portugal from 1139 to 1185

German knight and poet (1170–1220)

medieval poet

Welf dynasty, Duke of Saxony, as Henry III, and Duke of Bavaria, as Henry XII (1129-1195)

Byzantine emperor

first archbishop of Serbs

founded of the Mamluk Dynasty (1150-1210)

leading poet of the Middle High German period

king of Norway

King of Denmark

thumb|A memorial to Wace was set up in his native island of Jerseythumb|Wace presents his Roman de Rou to Henry II in this illustration from 1824 Wace ( 1110 – after 1174), sometimes referred to as Robert Wace, was a Medieval Norman poet, who was born in Jersey and brought up in mainland Normandy (he tells us in the Roman de Rou that he was taken as a child to Caen), ending his career as Canon of Bayeux.

medieval German poet

Bulgarian ruler

Queen of the Franks from 1154 to 1160

Bulgarian emperor

Queen of Castile and queen consort of Leon

Roi de Chypre et roi de Jérusalem

12th-century Iberian Arab astronomer and Qadi

High Duke of Poland

Bulgarian ruler

Kannada poet

Prince of Blaye and troubadour

King of Sweden from 1167 until 1196

troubadour

Byzantine writer

'''Hö'elün' (Mongolian: , , ; ) was a noblewoman of the Mongol Empire and the mother of Temüjin, better known as Genghis Khan. She played a major role in his rise to power, as described in the Secret History of the Mongols''.

Mongol empress (1190-1252)

Yennenga (born 11th-15th century) was a legendary princess, considered the mother of the Mossi people of Burkina Faso. She was a famous warrior within the Kingdom of Dagbon, now in present day Ghana. The founder of the Kingdom of Dagbon was her father, Nedega. Nedega refused to let Yennenga marry, resulting in her leaving the kingdom. On the run with her horse, she met a young hunter, Rialé with whom she had a child called Ouedraogo. Ouedraogo is a famous last name in Burkina Faso and means "male horse" in honour of the horse which led the princess to Rialé. Yennenga or her son Ouedraogo are c

Emperor of The Byzantine Empire

French archbishop

Abbess, author and illustrator from Alsace (c. 1130 – 1195)

Count of Holland from 1190 to 1203

Count of Burgundy

High Duchess consort of Poland

French theologian

220px|right|thumb|First page of the mid-15th century Lübeck manuscript of the Chronica slavorum

Margrave of Brandenburg from 1205 to 1220

Lord Chancellor of England; Bishop of Ely; Chief Justiciar of England

a Rus' princess

Margrave of Brandenburg from 1184 to 1205

Köten (; ; ; 1205–1241) was a Cuman–Kipchak chieftain (khan) and military commander active in the mid-13th century. He forged an important alliance with the Kievan Rus' against the Mongols but was ultimately defeated by them at the Kalka River in 1223. After the Mongol victory, Köten led 40,000 "huts" to Hungary, where he became an ally of the Hungarian king and accepted Catholicism, but was nonetheless assassinated by the Hungarian nobility.

Duke of Merania and Margrave of Istria

Ban of Bosnia from 1180 to 1204

Daughter of Baldwin II of Jerusalem, Princess of Antioch (12th century)

Queen Consort of Hungary

Danish historian

Prince of Novgorod, Galich and Torchesk

Grand Prince of Zeta (1165-1207)

12th-century Carinthian astrologer

12th-century French writer and theologian

Historian of the Crusades

12th-century author

first bishop of Livonia (ca 1130 – ca 1196)

Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physician

Duke of Carinthia

patron saint of business people, tailors, shoemakers, and clothworkers