Guillaume IX
Also recorded as William IX, Duke of Aquitaine · William IX
Guillaume IX

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- Born
- 1071
- Died
- 1126
- Nationality
- France · Duchy of Aquitaine
- Occupation
- troubadour · poet · writer · composer · warrior
- Movements
- troubadoric poetry · medieval music
- Known for
- Lyrical poems
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1126
Guillaume IX died.
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Pos de chantar m'es pres talenz
Farai un vers de dreyt rien
Farai un vers
Farai un vers de dreyt nien
Companho farai un vers desconvinen
Pos de chantar
Ab la doussor del temps novel
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Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.William IX, Duke of Aquitaine. Encyclopaedia Britannica.
- 2.Translation based on Marjorie Chibnall, in Bond, p. 240.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 25
- Abel, Mickey. Reassessing the Roles of Women as 'Makers' of Medieval Art and Architecture. Brill. 823 864. 2012.
- Anglade, Joseph. Grammaire de l'ancien provençal ou ancienne langue d'oc. Librairie c. Klincksieck. 1921.
- Beech, George T. The Ventures of the Dukes of Aquitaine into Spain and the Crusader East in the Early 12th Century. Haskins Society Journal. 5. 61–75. 1993.
- Beech, George T. The Crusader Lordship of Marash in Armenian Cilicia, 1104–1149. Viator. 27. 35–52. 1996. 10.1484/j.viator.2.301121.
- Bogin, Meg. The Women Troubadours. W. W. Norton and Company. 37–38. 1980.
- Bouchard, Constance Brittain. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady. Palgrave Macmillan. 223–236. 2002.
- Bouchard, Constance Brittain. The New Cambridge Medieval History. Cambridge University Press. 4, c.1024-c.1198, Part 2. 2004.
- Gillingham, John. Richard I. Yale University Press. 1999.
- Graham-Leigh, Elaine. The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade. The Boydell Press. 2005.
- Harvey, Ruth. The wives of the 'first troubadour', Duke William IX of Aquitaine. Journal of Medieval History. Elsevier. 19. 4. 307–325. 1993. 10.1016/0304-4181(93)90002-T.
- McDougall, Sara. Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800-1230. Oxford University Press. 2016.
- Morby, John E. The Sobriquets of Medieval European Princes. Canadian Journal of History. 13. 1. 1–16. 1978. 10.3138/cjh.13.1.1.
- Murray, Alan V. Anglo-Norman Studies XXXVIII: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2015. The Boydell Press. 81–96. 2016.
- William of Malmesbury. Gesta Regum Anglorum. Clarendon Press. 2. 1999.
- Biographies des troubadours ed. J. Boutière, A.-H. Schutz (Paris: Nizet, 1964) pp. 7–8, 585–587.
- Bond, Gerald A., ed., transl. intro. The Poetry of William VII, Count of Poitier, IX Duke of Aquitaine, (Garland Publishing Co.:New York) 1982
- Duisit, Brice. Las Cansos del Coms de Peitieus (CD), Alpha 505, 2003
- Harvey, Ruth E. The wives of the 'first troubadour', Duke William IX of Aquitaine (Journal of Medieval History), 1993
- Meade, Marion. Eleanor of Aquitaine, 1991
- Merwin, W.S. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 2002. pp xv-xvi. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. .
- Owen, D.D.R. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen and Legend
- Parsons, John Carmi. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady, 2002
- Pasero, Nicolò, ed.: Guglielmo IX d'Aquitania, Poesie. 1973
- Verdon, J. La chronique de Saint Maixent, 1979.
- Waddell, Helen. The Wandering Scholars: the Life and Art of the Lyric Poets of the Latin Middle Ages, 1955
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q5351: Guillaume IXWikimedia Foundation
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