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Walther von der Vogelweide

c. 1170 – c. 1230 · 13th century

Walther von der Vogelweide was the most celebrated German lyric poet of the Middle Ages. He wrote love songs in the Minnesang tradition as well as political poems commenting on the struggles between emperors and popes, and he served patrons including the Babenberg dukes of Austria, Landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia and Emperor Frederick II, who granted him a fief near Würzburg.

Walther von der Vogelweide
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Landgraviate of Thuringia

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