Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted:
1130: •
Guilhem de Berguedan (died
1196),
troubadour •
Owain Cyfeiliog (died
1197), one of the Welsh
Poets of the Princes •
Akka Mahadevi (died
1160), writer of
Vachana sahitya didactic poetry •
Tibors de Sarenom (died
1198),
trobairitz •
Eugenius of Palermo (died
1202),
amiratus (admiral), translator, and poet •
Zhu Xi (died
1200), Confucian scholar, writer, and poet
1134: •
Basava (died
1196), writing in
Kannada 1135: •
Zhu Shuzhen (died
1180), Chinese poet of the
Song dynasty 1138: •
Giraut de Bornelh (died
1215), French
troubadour whose his skill earned him the nickname of "Master of the Troubadours"
1139: •
Jakuren (died
1202), Japanese Buddhist priest and poet ==Deaths==