Aimeric de Belenoi
Illustration — N'aimerics de belenoi si fo de bordales dun castel qa nom lesparra.. "Sir Aimeric de Belenoi was from the Bordelais, from a castle called Lesparre.." In his picture he is portrayed tonsured, as a monk. Aimeric de Belenoi (fl.
Aimeric de Belenoi
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- Died
- 1242
- Nationality
- Kingdom of France
- Occupation
- troubadour · jongleur · composer
- Known for
- Lyrical poems
- Languages
- Old Occitan
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Early life
Early life
1215–1242) was a Gascon troubadour. At least fifteen of his songs survived. Seven others were attributed to him in some medieval manuscripts.
Aimeric was born in the castle of Lesparra in the Bordelais (metropolis civitas Burdigalensium, the modern Gironde). His uncle was another troubadour, Peire de Corbiac. His vida says he was a cleric and later a jongleur before he took to "inventing good songs, which were beautiful and charming." He apparently was the feudal lord of Belenoi, an unknown location.
Career
Career
The chief object of his songs was a lady named Gentil de Rieux (Gentilis de Gienciaco), a Gascon from Gensac-Saint-Julien and the wife of Raimon de Benque. His biographer records that he lingered in Gascony a long time "for her" before moving on to Catalonia, where he died. Aimeric's poetry refers to events at Toulouse, Provence, and Italy, implying that he travelled. He was at the Este court in Ferrara in the 1210s, where he probably had contact with Aimeric de Pegulhan, Albertet de Sestaro, Guillem Augier Novella and Peirol. He may also have made the acquaintance of Peire Cardenal. Aimeric went to Castile before making his final trip to Catalonia. His last datable work was Nulhs hom en res no falh, a planh for Nuño Sánchez, who died in 1242. This planh was addressed to the comtessa Beatris, wife of Raymond Berengar IV of Provence, and senher N'Imo, her brother Aimone, son of Thomas I of Savoy. Though the work is often ascribed to Raimbaut de Vaqueiras in the chansonniers, the reference to this pair and the style of the work, favour ascription to Aimeric. It is the only piece of work by Aimeric which survives with a melody, though that melody is ascribed (with the lyrics) in its lone manuscript to Peirol. The melody is through-composed. Aimeric's verses were first collected by Maria Dumitrescu as Poésies du troubadour Aimeric de Belenoi and published at Paris in 1935. She criticised his work as "banal", but it enjoyed widespread popularity in the High Middle Ages, especially in Italy, and it is varied in its intertwining themes moral, religious, and amorous.
Works
Works
All twenty two works that are sometime attributed to Aimeric are listed below, alphabetically:
Identity
Identity
Aimeric de Belenoi is recorded as troubadour, jongleur and composer.
Aimeric de Belenoi.
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Life and career
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Life and career
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1242
Aimeric de Belenoi died in 1242.
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Poésies du troubadour Aimeric de Belenoi
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q2636092: Aimeric de Belenoi
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- “Aimeric de Belenoi”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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authority file
- Gemeinsame Normdatei 119179687, Aimeric, de Belenoi.
General reference · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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- 1.Cita Aubrey p. 22 .
- 2."Hoc etiam Yspani usi sunt - et dico Yspanos qui poetati sunt in vulgari oc: Namericus de Belnui" (Dante, De vulgari eloquentia)
- 3.Egan, 1–2.
- 4.Cita Aubrey p. 20 .
- 5.Aimeric è stato particolarmente apprezzato da Margherita di Ginevra (v.1180-25 aprile 1236), moglie del conte Tommaso I di Savoia (1178-1233), alla quale dedicherà una delle sue poesie. Fu anche molto stimato e protetto da Aimone di Savoia, signore del Chiablese che risiedeva nel Castello di Chillon sulle rive del Lemano.
- 6.La melodia varia da stanza a stanza in modo sempre diverso (in inglese through-composed)
- 7.. Per la "motivic construction" di Aimeric, vedi .
- 8.Gaunt and Kay, 279.
- 9.Troubadours. 9. Aimeric de Belenoi.
- 10.Solo nel ms. P attribuita a Giraut de Bornelh
- 11.Solo nel ms. M attribuita a Folchetto di Marsiglia
- 12.Solo nel ms. L attribuita a Aimeric de Belenoi, in a 1 a 2 ad Aimeric de Sarlat, in T a Peire Rogier
- 13.Nel registro di C e nel ms. R attribuita a Aimeric de Peguilhan
- 14.Nei mss. F a I K d attribuita a Uc Brunet
- 15.Nel ms. D a attribuita a Willems e'N Aimerics.
- 16.Solo nel ms. C attribuita a Guillem Ademar
- 17.Resta solo l'incipit di questa tenso con Arnaut Catalan
- 18.Solo nel registro di C e nel ms. R attribuita ad Aimeric de Belenoi, in M a Cadenet, in f a Folchetto di Marsiglia
- 19.Solo nel ms. f attribuita ad Aimeric de Bélenoi, in C a Guillem de Berguedan, nel registro di C e in R al Monge de Montaudon, in E a Guillem Magret
- 20.Solo nel ms. E attribuita ad Aimeric de Belenoi
- 21.Solo nel ms. R attribuita ad Aimeric de Belenoi, in R a Peire Vidal
- 22.Nei mss. L S U c attribuita ad Aimeric de Bélenoi, in N a Peirol
- 23.Solo nel registro di C attribuita ad Aimeric de Belenoi, in F ad Aimeric de Sarlat
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 119179687, Aimeric, de Belenoi.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q2636092: Aimeric de BelenoiWikimedia Foundation
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Those registers additionally record the forms Belenoi, Aimeric de, Aimeric, de Bellinoi, Bellinoi, Aimeric de and Aimeric, de Belenuei.
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