1218 in poetry

Events

• Rambertino Buvalelli becomes podestà of the Republic of Genoa and probably introduces Occitan literature (including troubadour poetry) there
• Raimon Escrivan composes Senhors, l'autrier vi ses falhida during the Siege of Toulouse
• Enzio of Sardinia (died 1272), knight and general who wrote poems after being captured and imprisoned

Births

• Enzio of Sardinia (died 1272), knight and general who wrote poems after being captured and imprisoned.

Deaths

• June – William I of Baux (born 1155), French nobleman and troubadour, dies in a prison in Avignon