Events

• Peire Bremon Ricas Novas
  Peire Bremon Ricas Novas
  Peire Bremon Ricas Novas was a Provençal troubadour who left behind twenty works: thirteen cansos, six sirventes, and one tenso. His treatment of courtly love was somewhat original....
  
   and Sordello
  Sordello
  Sordello da Goito or Sordel de Goit was a 13th-century Lombard troubadour, born in the municipality of Goito in the province of Mantua...
  
   attack each other in a string of sirventes
  Sirventes
  The sirventes or serventes is a genre of Occitan lyric poetry used by the troubadours. In early Catalan it became a sirventesch and was imported into that language in the fourteenth century, where it developed into a unique didactic/moralistic type...
  
  

Deaths

• September 26 – Fujiwara no Teika
  Fujiwara no Teika
  Fujiwara no Teika , also known as Fujiwara no Sadaie or Sada-ie, was a Japanese poet, critic, calligrapher, novelist, anthologist, scribe, and scholar of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods...
  
   藤原定家, also known as "Fujiwara no Sadaie" or "Sada-ie" (born 1162), a widely venerated, Japanese
  Japanese poetry
  Japanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry. For...
  
   waka
  Waka (poetry)
  Waka or Yamato uta is a genre of classical Japanese verse and one of the major genres of Japanese literature...
  
   poet and (for centuries) extremely influential critic; also a scribe, scholar and extremely influential anthologist of the late Heian period
  Heian period
  The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185. The period is named after the capital city of Heian-kyō, or modern Kyōto. It is the period in Japanese history when Buddhism, Taoism and other Chinese influences were at their height...
  
   and early Kamakura period
  Kamakura period
  The is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura Shogunate, officially established in 1192 in Kamakura by the first shogun Minamoto no Yoritomo....
  
  ; the Tale of Matsura is generally attributed to him; son of Fujiwara no Shunzei
  Fujiwara no Shunzei
  was a noted Japanese poet and nobleman, son of Fujiwara no Toshitada. He was also known as Fujiwara no Toshinari or Shakua ; in his younger days , he gave his name as Akihiro , but in 1167, changed to Shunzei...
  
  
• Snorri Sturluson
  Snorri Sturluson
  Snorri Sturluson was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician. He was twice elected lawspeaker at the Icelandic parliament, the Althing...
  
   (born 1178), Icelandic poet