1221 in poetry

Events

• The troubadour Peirol pilgrimaged to Jerusalem.

Births

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

Deaths

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