1237 in poetry

Events

• Sordello composes the first sirventes-planh in order to mark the death of his patron Blacatz

Births

• Adam de la Halle, a French trouvère, poet and musician

Deaths

• Blacatz, Occitan troubadour
• Hélinand of Froidmont died after 1229 - likely 1237, medieval poet, chronicler, and ecclesiastical writer in Latin
• Fujiwara no Ietaka, Japanese Kamakura period waka poet