title: 1237 in poetry
text: # 1237 in poetry
  
  ## Events
  
  * Sordello composes the first sirventes-planh in order to mark the death of his patron Blacatz
  
  ## Births
  
  * Adam de la Halle (died 1288), a French trouvère, poet and musician
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * Blacatz (born 1165), Occitan troubadour
  * Hélinand of Froidmont died after 1229 - likely 1237 (born 1160), medieval poet, chronicler, and ecclesiastical writer in Latin
  * Fujiwara no Ietaka (born 1158), Japanese Kamakura period waka poet
  