Hawart

13th century) was a German poet in the tradition of Minnesang (love lyric).

[1] In another song he laments the failure of the princes of the Holy Roman Empire to unite behind one emperor, a clear reference to the Great Interregnum (1254–1273).

[3] More recently he has been identified with Johannes Hawart the Elder of Strasbourg, who is mentioned in texts of 1289 and 1292 and died in 1302 in old age.

If Hawart's crusade songs were part of the propaganda and recruitment efforts surrounding this event, that puts their composition in 1266.

Nu kiuse ich an der vogel swigen daz diu naht wil an ir krefte stigen, si langet und ist kalt si machet die gelieben balt: so nahen niemen si gelegen mak; diu wunne ist bezzer, danne ein heizer, langer tak.