Troubadour

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A troubadour (a French adaptation of the Occitan word trobador) was a composer and performer of songs during the High Middle Ages in Europe. The...
Peire Vidal

Peire Vidal

male, deceased (1205)
Peire Vidal (1175-1205) was a troubadour. According to his biography, he was the son of a furrier, and the greatest of singers. Peire started his...
Arnaut Daniel

Arnaut Daniel

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Arnaut Danièl was a Provençal troubadour of the 13th century, praised by Dante as "il miglior fabbro" (the best craftsman/creator, literally "the be...
Bernart de Ventadorn

Bernart de Ventadorn

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Bernart de Ventadorn, also known as Bernard de Ventadour, or Bernat de Ventadorn in Occitan, was a troubador composer and poet. According to the...
Bertran de Born

Bertran de Born

male, deceased (1215)
Bertran de Born (1140s - by 1215) was a baron from the Limousin in France, and one of the major Occitan troubadours of the twelfth century.

Marcabru

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Marcabru is one of the earliest troubadours whose poems are known. There is no certain information about him; the two "vidas" attached to his poems...

Jaufré Rudel

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Jaufré Rudel, Lord of Blaye, was a troubadour of the early-mid 12th century, who probably died during the Second Crusade, in or after 1147. He is n...
Guiraut Riquier

Guiraut Riquier

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Guiraut Riquier is among the last of the Provençal troubadours. He is well known because of his great care in writing out his works and keeping t...
Gaucelm Faidit

Gaucelm Faidit

male, deceased (1230)
Gaucelm Faidit (c.1170 - 1230) was a troubadour, born in Uzerche, in the Limousin, from a family of knights in service of the count of Turenne. He...
Raimbaut de Vaqueiras

Raimbaut de Vaqueiras

male, deceased (1207)
Raimbaut de Vaqueiras was a Provençal troubadour and, later in his life, knight. His life was spent mainly in Italian courts until 1203, when he j...