1230 in poetry

Events

 * Beginning of the Sicilian School
 * Bernart Sicart de Maruèjols composed the sirventes "Ab greu cossire" about the effect of the Albigensian Crusade on Languedoc
 * Peire Bremon Ricas Novas and Gui de Cavalhon compose a tenso together

Births

 * Guido Guinizelli, born between 1230-1240 (died 1276), Italian poet and 'founder' of the Dolce Stil Novo
 * Guiraut Riquier (died 1292), an Occitan troubadour

Deaths

 * Janna (born unknown), Kannada
 * Walther von der Vogelweide (born 1170), Middle High German lyric poet