1244 in poetry

Events

 * Lanfranc Cigala writes Si mos chans fos de joi ni de solatz in response to the loss of Jerusalem to the Mamelukes
 * Guilhem Figueira writes Del preveire maior urging peace in Europe for a union against Islam after the fall of Jerusalem

Births

 * Folquet de Lunel (died 1300), troubadour from Lunel (in the modern department of Hérault)