Deaths

• Einion ap Gwalchmai
  Einion ap Gwalchmai
  The Welsh court poet Einion ap Gwalchmai was the son of the poet Gwalchmai ap Meilyr and brother of the poet Meilyr ap Gwalchmai. He lived in Gwynedd. Some lines of a praise poem to Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, Prince of Gwynedd, have survived, together with three impressive religious awdlau .The Welsh...
  
   (born unknown), one of the Welch Poets of the Princes (approx.)
• Alamanda de Castelnau
  Alamanda de Castelnau
  Alamanda was a trobairitz whose only surviving work is a tenso with Giraut de Bornelh called S'ie.us qier conseill, bella amia Alamanda. In the past she was usually considered fictitious and the "tenso" was considered a piece of Giraut's writing...
  
   (born 1160), trobairitz
  Trobairitz
  The trobairitz were Occitan female troubadours of the 12th and 13th centuries, active from around 1170 to approximately 1260. The word trobairitz was first used in the 13th-century romance Flamenca. It comes from the Provençal word trobar, the literal meaning of which is "to find", and the...