Gaucelm Faidit
Gaucelm Faidit (literally "Gaucelm the Dispossessed" c. 1156 – c. 1209) was a troubadour, born in Uzerche, in the Limousin, from a family of knights in service of the count of Turenne.
Gaucelm Faidit
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- France
- Occupation
- troubadour · poet · composer · writer
- Movements
- medieval music · troubadoric poetry
- Languages
- Occitan · Old Occitan
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He travelled widely in France, Spain, and Hungary. His known patrons include Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany and Dalfi d'Alvernha; he was also at one time in Poitiers at the court of Richard I of England, for whose death he wrote a famous planh (lament) in 1199. According to the vida, her name was Guillelma Monja: "she was very beautiful and well educated" and accompanied her husband on Crusade. The vida also claims that Gaucelm was rather fat, and that after their marriage, Guillelma also put on weight. About seventy of Gaucelm's poems and fourteen of his melodies survive. Six poems are addressed to Boniface of Montferrat, and twelve to Maria de Ventadorn. Several of his poems are accompanied in the manuscripts by detailed explanations (razós), usually concerning love affairs and rivalries that allegedly inspired the poems.
The recorded working language is Occitan and Old Occitan.
Gaulcem Faidit.
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Le troubadour Gaucelm Faidit, XIIe siècle.
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1170
Gaucelm Faidit born at Uzerche.
1202
Gaucelm Faidit died.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q561237: Gaucelm Faidit
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- “Gaucelm Faidit”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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scholarly publication
- Gaucelm Faidit, Leben und Lieder der Provenzalischen Troubadours, 1959
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1959
authority file
- Gemeinsame Normdatei 100967442, Gaucelm, Faidit.
General reference · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 100967442, Gaucelm, Faidit.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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