1221 in poetry
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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