- female, deceased (1430)
- Christine de Pizan (1364–1430) was a writer and analyst of the medieval era who strongly challenged the clerical misogyny and stereotypes that we...
- male, deceased (1471)
- Sir Thomas Malory was the author or compiler of "Le Morte d'Arthur". The antiquary John Leland believed him to be Welsh, but most modern...
- male
- Chrétien de Troyes was a French poet and trouvère who flourished in the late 12th century. Little is known of his life, but he seems to have been fr...
- male, deceased (1220)
- Wolfram von Eschenbach (born c. 1170, died c. 1220) was a German knight and poet, regarded as one of the greatest epic poets of his time. As a...
- 1209 years old
- Nennius, or Nemnivus, is either of two shadowy personages traditionally associated with the history of Wales. The better known of the two is...
- male
- Robert de Boron was a French poet of the late 12th and early 13th centuries, originally from the village of Boron, in the arrondissement of...
- male, deceased (1209)
- Walter Map (fl. 1160-1196, died c. 1208-1210) was a medieval writer. He claims Welsh origin and to be a man of the Welsh Marches ("marchio sum...
- female, deceased (1416)
- Julian of Norwich is considered to be one of the greatest English mystics. Little is known of her life aside from her writings. Even her name is...
- male, deceased (1210)
- Gottfried von Strassburg (died c. 1210) is the author of the Middle High German courtly romance "Tristan", which is regarded, alongside Wolfram von...
- male, deceased (1294)
- Roger Bacon (c. 1214–1294), also known as Doctor Mirabilis, was one of the most famous Franciscan friars of his time. An English philosopher who pl...
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