1230 in poetry

Events

• Beginning of the Sicilian School
• Bernart Sicart de Maruèjols composed the sirventes "Ab greu cossire" about the effect of the Albigensian Crusade on Languedoc
• Peire Bremon Ricas Novas and Gui de Cavalhon compose a tenso together

Births

• Guido Guinizelli, born between 1230-1240 (died 1276), Italian poet and 'founder' of the Dolce Stil Novo
• Guiraut Riquier (died 1292), an Occitan troubadour

Deaths

• Janna (born unknown), Kannada
• Walther von der Vogelweide (born 1170), Middle High German lyric poet