1190s in poetry
# 1190s in poetry

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## Events

1195:

* Folquet de Marselha gives up poetry to take up the religious life

1197:

* Salh d'Escola enters a cloister in Bergerac and gives up composing

1198:

* Bertran de Born's last datable poem

1199:

* Gaucelm Faidit composes a planh on the death of Richard I of England

## Works published

1190:

* Probable approx. date of The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Old Ukrainian: Слово о пълку Игорєвѣ, Slovo o pŭlku Igorevě)

1192:

* Approx. date of Layla and Majnun by Nezami

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted:

1190:

* Gonzalo de Berceo (died 1264), Spanish poet especially on religious themes
* Pietro della Vigna (died 1249), Italian jurist, diplomat, poet, and sonneteer of the Sicilian School
* Yuan Haowen (died 1257), Chinese Sanqu poetry writer

1191:

* Janna (died unknown), Kannada poet

1193:

* Shang Dao (died 1258), Chinese Sanqu poet

1196:

* Alberico da Romano (died 1260), patron and troubadour

1198:

* Fujiwara no Tameie (died 1275), Japanese poet

## Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

1190:

* Khaqani Shirvani (born 1121/1122), Persian
* Saigyō Hōshi (born 1118), Japan

1193:

* Fan Chengda (born 1126), Song

1196:

* Alfonso II of Aragon (born 1157), an Occitan troubadour
* Basava (born 1134), writing in Kannada
* Guilhem de Berguedan (born 1130), troubadour

1197:

* Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1165)
* Owain Cyfeiliog (born 1130), one of the Welsh Poets of the Princes
* Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne, patron of troubadours

1198:

* Tibors de Sarenom (born 1130), trobairitz

1199:

* April 6 – Richard I of England (born 1157), Poitevin and Occitan poet
