1220 in poetry

Events

• Troubadour Obs de Biguli entertains at the coronation of the Emperor Frederick II
• Uc de Saint Circ moves first into Provence, then Lombardy, and finally the March of Treviso; in Italy he composes many vidas and razos
• Bertran Folcon d'Avignon and Gui de Cavalhon exchange coblas about the siege of Castelnaudary

Births

• Brunetto Latini (died 1294), Florentine philosopher, poet, scholar and statesman

Deaths

• Wolfram von Eschenbach (born 1170), German knight and poet; as a Minnesinger, he also wrote lyric poetry
• Heinrich von Morungen died 1220 or 1222 (born unknown), a German Minnesänger

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry