1226 in poetry explained

Events

• By August, the biographical poem L'histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal, commissioned to commemorate the life of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, is completed, probably by a Tourangeau layman called John in the southern Welsh Marches.^[1]
• Palaizi and Tomier compose the sirventes "De chantar farai" during the siege of Avignon by Louis VIII of France.
• The poem "Of Sir Tristrem" was translated into Norse under the title of "Saga af Tristrand og Isaldis".^[2]

Deaths

• October 3 - Francis of Assisi, 44, first Italian poet^[3]

Notes and References

1. David. Crouch. Marshal, William (I), fourth earl of Pembroke (c.1146–1219). 2004. Online. 2013-11-05. 10.1093/ref:odnb/18126.
2. Web site: The History of English Poetry, from the Close of the Eleventh Century to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century to Which are Prefixed Three Dissertations...: 1. 1840.
3. Book: Brand, Peter . Lino . Pertile . The Cambridge History of Italian Literature. . 1999 . 0-52166622-8. The Cambridge History of Italian Literature .