Events

• Reinmar von Zweter
  Reinmar von Zweter
  Reinmar von Zweter was a Middle High German poet of Spruchdichtung. The iconography in the Manesse Codex suggests that he may have been blind, since he is the only person represented in the manuscript with closed eyes and other people writing...
  
   starts writing his first poems for Frederick II, Duke of Austria
  Frederick II, Duke of Austria
  Frederick II, known as the Quarrelsome or the Warlike , from the House of Babenberg, was the duke of Austria and Styria from 1230 to 1246....
  
  

Works

• William the Clerk of Normandy
  William the Clerk of Normandy
  William the Clerk of Normandy was a Norman cleric and Old French poet. He is not the same person as the Scoto-Norman poet William the Clerk, who wrote the Roman de Fergus, sometimes wrongly attributed to the Norman....
  
  composes Besant de Dieu, an allegorical poem, and Les treis moz de l'evesque de Lincoln