HISTORIAN

Gerald of Wales

1146 - 1201

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Gerald of Wales (Latin: Giraldus Cambrensis; Welsh: Gerallt Cymro; French: Gerald de Barri; c. 1146 – c. 1223) was a Cambro-Norman priest and historian. As a royal clerk to the king and two archbishops, he travelled widely and wrote extensively. He studied and taught in France and visited Rome several times, meeting the Pope. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerald of Wales has received more than 369,932 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Gerald of Wales is the 232nd most popular historian (up from 278th in 2019), the 2,183rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,673rd in 2019) and the 21st most popular British Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 370k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Gerald of Wales ranks 232 out of 561. Before him are Henri Maspero, Peter Andreas Munch, Georges Lefebvre, Halil İnalcık, Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi, and Reinhart Dozy. After him are Maxime Rodinson, Alexander Kazhdan, Johannes Aventinus, Timothy Garton Ash, Gustave Lanson, and Marc Ferro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1146, Gerald of Wales ranks 3. Before him are Conrad of Montferrat, and William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.  Among people deceased in 1201, Gerald of Wales ranks 13. Before him are Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani, Constance, Duchess of Brittany, Bolesław I the Tall, Irene Komnene Doukaina, Walter of Châtillon, and Elena Asenina of Bulgaria.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gerald of Wales ranks 2,183 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Baxter (1615), Michael Powell (1905), Jerry Springer (1944), Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884), Eric Temple Bell (1883), and Michael Adams (1971). After him are Wilfred Owen (1893), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (1967), Bernard Williams (1929), John Miles (1949), John Cleland (1709), and John Paul Jones (1747).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Gerald of Wales ranks 21. Before him are Antony Beevor (1946), W. Montgomery Watt (1909), William of Malmesbury (1080), Robert Conquest (1917), Tony Judt (1948), and John Foxe (1516). After him are Timothy Garton Ash (1955), Quentin Skinner (1940), Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810), Christopher Hill (1912), George Buchanan (1506), and Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928).

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