1270 in poetry

Events

 * Tanaide Mor mac Dúinnín Ó Maolconaire becomes Ollamh Síl Muireadaigh
 * Three planhs composed for the death of Louis IX of France:
 * Guilhem d'Autpol composed Fortz tristors es e salvaj'a retraire
 * Raimon Gaucelm de Bezers composed Ab grans trebalhs et ab grans marrimens
 * Austorc de Segret composed No sai quim so, tan sui desconoissens (a Crusading song more than a planh)
 * Joan Esteve composed Aissi quol malanans, a planh on the death of Amalric I of Narbonne

Births

 * Cino da Pistoia (died 1336), Italian jurist and poet

Deaths

 * Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd (born unknown), Welsh
 * Dubsúilech Ó Maolconaire (born unknown), an Ollamh Síl Muireadaigh