1220s deaths

Persian Sufi poet (c. 1145 – c. 1221)

Jochi (; ), also spelled Jüchi, was a prince of the early Mongol Empire. His life was marked by controversy over the circumstances of his birth and culminated in his estrangement from his family. He was nevertheless a prominent military commander and the progenitor of the family who ruled over the khanate of the Golden Horde.

German knight and poet (1170–1220)

medieval clergyman and historian

Jebe (or Jebei, , pronounced as Zev; birth name: '''Jirqo'adai (Modern Mongolian: Zurgaadai'''), , ) (death: approximately 1224) was one of the most prominent Noyans (generals) of Genghis Khan. He belonged to the Besud clan, part of the Taichud tribe, which was under Targudai Khiriltug's leadership at the time of Genghis Khan. Even though Jebe was originally an enemy soldier, Genghis Khan recruited him and turned him into one of his greatest generals. Jebe played an important role in helping to expand the territory of Genghis Khan's empire. Despite playing a large role as a general for Genghis

Empress consort of Isaac II Angelos, Byzantine Emperor

English canonist and writer

Prince of Novgorod, Galich and Torchesk

French knight

patron of troubadour poetry

13th-century Islamic scholar and rhetorician

German Cistercian monk, Bishop of Osnabrück and saint

Chinese musician (1155-1221)

German minnesinger

daughter of Bouchard IV/V de Montmorency

French chronicler and poet

troubadour

Polish princess

thumb|right|Peirol, from a 13th-century chansonnier Peirol or Peiròl (, ; born c. 1160, fl. 1188–1222/1225, died in the 1220s) was an Auvergnat troubadour who wrote mostly cansos of courtly love in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Thirty-four surviving poems written in Occitan have been attributed to him; of these, seventeen (sixteen of them love songs) have surviving melodies. He is sometimes called '''Peirol d'Auvergne or Peiròl d'Auvèrnha, and erroneously Pierol'''.

German poet and historian

Italian noble

Byzantine governor

English Earl of Arundel (died 1221)

Italian bishop and chancelor of Sicily

margrave of Moravia

English Earl

story about St. Francis of Assisi

English Baron, executor of Magna Carta

Jewish writer

French poet