title: 1212 in poetry
text: # 1212 in poetry
  
  ## Events
  
  * Walther von der Vogelweide wrote Der Ottenton
  * Bertran de Gourdon wrote two coblas on doing homage to Philip II of France
  * May 6 — The troubadour Ademar Jordan was captured in battle by Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester and never heard from again
  
  ## Births
  
  * Ibn Sahl of Seville (died 1251), Arabic language Moorish poet of Andalusia
  