Deaths

• Dec. 17: Conon de Béthune
  Conon de Béthune
  Conon de Béthune was a crusader and "trouvère" poet.-Life:...
  
   died 1219 or 1220 (born 1150), crusader and trouvère
  Trouvère
  Trouvère , sometimes spelled trouveur , is the Northern French form of the word trobador . It refers to poet-composers who were roughly contemporary with and influenced by the troubadours but who composed their works in the northern dialects of France...