1244 in poetry explained

Events

• Lanfranc Cigala writes Occitan (post 1500);: Si mos chans fos de joi ni de solatz in response to the loss of Jerusalem to the Mamelukes
• Guilhem Figueira writes Occitan (post 1500);: Del preveire maior urging peace in Europe for a union against Islam after the fall of Jerusalem

Births

• Folquet de Lunel (died 1300), troubadour from Lunel (in the modern department of Hérault)