title: 1221 in poetry
text: # 1221 in poetry
  
  ## Events
  
  * The troubadour Peirol pilgrimaged to Jerusalem.
  
  ## Births
  
  * Alfonso X of Castile (died 1284), Castilian monarch and writer of Galician-Portuguese lyrics
  * Willem van Afflighem (died 1297), Flemish poet and abbot at Sint-Truiden
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * Henry I of Rodez (born 1175), French troubadour
  * Jiang Kui (born 1155), Chinese poet, composer and calligrapher of the Song Dynasty
  * Attar Neyshapuri (born 1145), Persian Muslim poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer
  