Overview of the events of 1226 in poetry
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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.
- 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".
Deaths
- October 3 - Francis of Assisi, 44, first Italian poet
References
- Crouch, David (2004). "Marshal, William (I), fourth earl of Pembroke (c.1146–1219)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18126. Retrieved 2013-11-05. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- "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.
- Brand, Peter (1999). Pertile, Lino (ed.). The Cambridge History of Italian Literature. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-52166622-8.
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