Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1147:
Bernard Silvestris's Cosmographia presented to the Pope
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:
1140:
Beatritz de Dia (died unknown), French trobairitz (female troubadour)
Xin Qiji (died 1207), Chinese Song Dynasty poet and military leader
Dietmar von Aist (died 1171), an early Minnesänger (possible)
1141:
Nizami Ganjavi (died 1209), Persian romantic epic poet
1142:
Farid al-Din Attar (died 1221), Persian
1145:
Ibn Jubayr (died 1217), geographer, traveler and poet from al-Andalus
Attar Neyshapuri (died 1221), Persian Muslim poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer
1147:
Raimbaut of Orange (died 1173), Occitan troubadour (approx.)
1149:
Chand Bardai (died 1200), Hindu Brahmin and the court poet of the Indian king Prithviraj Chauhan
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
1141:
Yehuda Halevi (born 1075), Hebrew poet in Al-Andalus
1142:
Yue Fei (born 1103), Song
Peter Abelard (born 1079), French, writing in Latin
1143:
Adib Sabir (born unknown), Persian
1147:
Jaufré Rudel (born unknown), an Occitan troubadour
1148:
Am'aq (born 1048), Persian poet that carried the title amir al-shu'ara ("Amir of poets")
Bernard Silvestris (born 1085), a Latin poet in France
