1237 in poetry
# 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 (died 1288), a French trouvère, poet and musician

## Deaths

* Blacatz (born 1165), Occitan troubadour
* Hélinand of Froidmont died after 1229 - likely 1237 (born 1160), medieval poet, chronicler, and ecclesiastical writer in Latin
* Fujiwara no Ietaka (born 1158), Japanese Kamakura period waka poet
