1221 in poetry

Events

• The troubadour Peirol pilgrimaged to Jerusalem.

Births

• Alfonso X of Castile (died 1284), Castilian monarch and writer of Galician-Portuguese lyrics
• Willem van Afflighem (died 1297), Flemish poet and abbot at Sint-Truiden

Deaths

• Henry I of Rodez (born 1175), French troubadour
• Jiang Kui (born 1155), Chinese poet, composer and calligrapher of the Song dynasty
• Attar Neyshapuri (born 1145), Persian Muslim poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry