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Births

Deaths

• Wace, Anglo-Norman poet and author of the Roman de Brut and Roman de Rou

Events

• Ordering of the Senzai Wakashū, an imperial Japanese poetry anthology
• Bertran de Born composed a planh, "Mon chan fenisc ab dol et ab maltraire", on the death of Henry the Young King. Rigaut de Berbezill composed another, "Si tuit li dol e.l plor e.l marrimen", as did Peire Raimon de Tolosa.