Alamanda de Castelnau
Alamanda was a trobairitz whose only surviving work is a tenso with Giraut de Bornelh called S'ie us qier conseill, bella amia Alamanda. In the past she was usually considered fictitious and the "tenso" was considered a piece of Giraut's writing. However, an Alamanda is mentioned by three other troubadours, including the trobairitz Lombarda, indicating that she was probably real and quite prominent in Occitan poetic circles.
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Alamanda de Castelnau
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- Kingdom of France
- Occupation
- trobairitz · composer
- Movements
- medieval music
- Known for
- Lyrical poems
- Languages
- Old Occitan
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Alamanda was a trobairitz whose only surviving work is a tenso with Giraut de Bornelh called S'ie us qier conseill, bella amia Alamanda. In the past she was usually considered fictitious and the "tenso" was considered a piece of Giraut's writing. However, an Alamanda is mentioned by three other troubadours, including the trobairitz Lombarda, indicating that she was probably real and quite prominent in Occitan poetic circles.
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Her tenso with Giraut de Bornelh mirrors in form a canso by the Comtessa de Dia. The trobairitz is often identified with Alamanda de Castelnau or Castelnou who was born around 1160. She was probably poetically active only briefly while spending her youth at the court of Raymond V of Toulouse (reigned 1148-1194). She left his court to marry Guilhem de Castelnou and later became a canoness of Saint-Étienne at Toulouse, dying in 1223.
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1223
Alamanda de Castelnau died.
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- Alamanda de Castelnau – Une trobairitz dans l’entourage des comtes de Toulouse?, Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (ZrP), 1991
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- “Alamanda de Castelnau”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Alamanda de Castelnau – Une trobairitz dans l’entourage des comtes de Toulouse?, Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (ZrP), 1991
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- 1.Alamanda de Castelnau (1160–1223). S'ie us qier conseill, bella amia Alamanda. Classical music online.
- 2.Rosenberg, Samuel N. Songs of the Troubadours and Trouveres: An Anthology of Poems and Melodies. Routledge. 2013-09-05. 978-1-134-81914-0.
- 3.Akehurst, F. R. P. A Handbook of the Troubadours. University of California Press. 2023-04-28. 978-0-520-91300-4.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Bruckner, Matilda Tomaryn; Shepard, Laurie; and White, Sarah. Songs of the Women Troubadours. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. .
- M. L. Abbé Salvan, https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_7scCAAAAQAAJ/bub_gb_7scCAAAAQAAJ_djvu.txt Histoire Générale de l'église de Toulouse: Depuis les temps les plus recalés jusqu'à nos jours (Toulouse, 1859) (external link to Internet Archive text)
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Alamanda de Castelnau – Une trobairitz dans l’entourage des comtes de Toulouse?, Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (ZrP), 1991Crossref registry
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