1226 in poetry

Events

• By August, the biographical poem L'histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal, commissioned to commemorate the life of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, is completed, probably by a Tourangeau layman called John in the southern Welsh Marches.
• Palaizi and Tomier compose the sirventes "De chantar farai" during the siege of Avignon by Louis VIII of France.
• The poem "Of Sir Tristrem" was translated into Norse under the title of "Saga af Tristrand og Isaldis".

Deaths

• October 3 - Francis of Assisi, 44, first Italian poet

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