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Villard de Honnecourt

1200 - 1250

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Villard de Honnecourt (Wilars dehonecort, Vilars de Honecourt) was a 13th-century artist from Picardy in northern France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Villard de Honnecourt has received more than 138,048 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Villard de Honnecourt is the 35th most popular engineer (down from 32nd in 2019), the 1,015th most popular biography from France (down from 980th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Engineer.

Villard de Honnecourt is most famous for being the first person to write a book on architecture.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Villard de Honnecourt ranks 35 out of 389. Before him are Lennart Torstensson, Hermann Oberth, Albert Göring, Theodore von Kármán, Emil Škoda, and Hugo Junkers. After him are Pavel Sukhoi, Felix Wankel, Ildefons Cerdà, Ernst Heinkel, Howard H. Aiken, and Anthony Fokker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1200, Villard de Honnecourt ranks 7. Before him are Pope Urban III, Pope Alexander IV, Pope Celestine IV, Qutuz, Dōgen, and Zhang Sanfeng. After him are Gebre Mesqel Lalibela, Ghiyas ud din Balban, Muhammad al-Nasir, Doquz Khatun, Shiban, and Joan, Countess of Flanders. Among people deceased in 1250, Villard de Honnecourt ranks 3. Before him are Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Eric IV of Denmark. After him are Robert I, Count of Artois, Eric XI of Sweden, Al-Muazzam Turanshah, Herman VI, Margrave of Baden, Theresa of Portugal, Queen of León, Peter I, Duke of Brittany, Guillaume de Sonnac, and Alberic of Trois-Fontaines.

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In France

Among people born in France, Villard de Honnecourt ranks 1,015 out of 6,770. Before him are Nicolas Chauvin (1790), Julien Green (1900), Louis II of Anjou (1377), Gérard Mourou (1944), Louise Bourgeois (1911), and Eugène Scribe (1791). After him are Agnes of Poitou (1025), Tetricus I (250), Raymond of Poitiers (1115), Louis Malle (1932), Princess Clémentine of Orléans (1817), and Lili Boulanger (1893).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Villard de Honnecourt ranks 5. Before him are Gustave Eiffel (1832), Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796), Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633), and André Citroën (1878). After him are Paul Cornu (1881), Marcel Dassault (1892), Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt (1240), Marcel Renault (1872), Henri Farman (1874), André Courrèges (1923), and Henry Darcy (1803).

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