Medieval women poets

French poet and author (1364 – c. 1430)

medieval poet

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female troubadour (fl. c. 1175 or c. 1212)

thumb|Medieval manuscript page of a Hadewijch poem

Al-Ándalus slave and intellectual

Wife of Eric Bloodaxe

Occitan poet and countess of Forcalquier

thumb|A medieval depiction of Comtessa de Diá

medieval Arabic Sufi master and poet

Italian Renaissance poet (1384-1448)

Eucheria was a Roman poet who was active sometime in the late 5th to early 6th centuries AD. Along with Sulpicia, she was a rare example of a Roman female satirist.

Empress consort of Japan

Norse poet

poet

French trobairitz

Occitan trobairitz and poet

9th-century Norwegian poet and noblewoman

legendary pre-Islamic Arab poet

poet

Welsh poet

Al-Ḥujayjah (), also known as Safīyah bint Thaʻlabah al-Shaybānīyah () was a pre-Islamic poet of the Banū Shaybān tribe, noted for her work in the genre of taḥrīḍ (incitement to vengeance). Her dates of birth and death are unknown, and even her historicity is open to question. But she seems to have granted protection to al-Ḥurqah bint al-Nuʻmān when Khosrow II (r. 590-628) demanded her in marriage from her father al-Nu'man III ibn al-Mundhir around the beginning of the seventh century, and her surviving corpus relates to the Battle of Dhū-Qār in c. 609. Characterised as a 'warrior diplomat', s

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6th century Arabic poet who described the defeat of the Banu Qurayza

French trobairitz and composer

Arabic poet