Arnaut Guilhem de Marsan
Arnaut Guilhem (or Guillem) de Marsan (fl. 1160–1180) was a Landais nobleman and troubadour. He was descended from a cadet branch of the viscounts of Marsan and was himself lord of Roquefort and Montgaillard and co-lord of Marsan.
Also recorded as Guillem
Arnaut Guilhem de Marsan
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- Kingdom of France
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- troubadour · composer
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- Old Occitan
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Arnaut was a member of the 1170 escort of Eleanor, daughter of Henry II of England, from Bordeaux to the Spanish border for her marriage to Alfonso VIII of Castile. He is attested in a charter of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Arnaut Guilhem was also an Occitan lyric poet who composed one of the earliest ensenhamens or didactic poems: the Ensenhamen del cavalier (teaching of the cavalier). The medievalist Mark Johnston notes that his work is similar to that of another 12th-century troubadour poet, Garin lo Brun. According to an Occitan vida, the troubadour Peire de Valeira was from Arnaut Guilhem's lands. Arnaut Guilhem was the ancestor of three branches of the house of Marsan through his three sons: the co-lords of Marsans and lords of Roquefort and Montgaillard; the lords of Cauna; and the lords of Tardets.
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- 1.Au Moyen Âge, Roquefort est une coseigneurie, c'est-à-dire une seigneurie tenue en indivision : voir la maison du coseigneur
- 2.Leur histoire, c'est aussi notre histoire, épisode n°15 Ensenhamen. émission diffusée sur Radio MDM.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Camille Chabaneau, Biographie des troubadours en langue provençale, page 125
- Publication du texte original de son Ensenhamen avec une traduction française de Gérard Gouiran, dans Jacques de Cauna, L'Ensenhamen ou code du parfait chevalier du troubadour gascon Arnaut-Guilhem de Marsan, éd. Pyrémonde, Monein, 2007, pp 64-95.
- Publication du texte original de son Ensenhamen avec une traduction italienne dans : Giuseppe E. Sansone, Testi didattico-cortesi di Provenza, Biblioteca di filologia romanza n°29, Bari, 1977, pp 111-145.
- Des détails biographiques sur Arnaut-Guilhem de Marsan se trouvent dans : S. Guida, « Cartulari e trovatori », Cultura neolatina, Roma-Modena, 1999, pp 77-86.
- La datation de son Ensenhamen : R. Lejeune, "La date de lEnsenhamen d'Arnaut-Guilhem de Marsan", Studi Medievali, vol.22, Turin, 1939, pp 160-171.
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