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