1221 in poetry
# 1221 in poetry

## Events

* The troubadour Peirol pilgrimaged to Jerusalem.

## Births

* Alfonso X of Castile (died 1284), Castilian monarch and writer of Galician-Portuguese lyrics
* Willem van Afflighem (died 1297), Flemish poet and abbot at Sint-Truiden

## Deaths

* Henry I of Rodez (born 1175), French troubadour
* Jiang Kui (born 1155), Chinese poet, composer and calligrapher of the Song Dynasty
* Attar Neyshapuri (born 1145), Persian Muslim poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer
