Folquet de Marselha
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Folquet de Marselha came from a Genoese merchant family who lived in Marseille. He was a celebrated troubadour who, after a religious conversion, became a Cistercian monk and later the bishop of Toulo
"Folquet de Marseilla" in a 13th-century chansonnier, depicted in his episcopal robes.
Painting from Teruel Cathedral of musician clergy, possibly Folquet de Marseille.
Folquet depicted holding a bible in BnF ms. 854 fol. 61.
The Song of the Albigensian Crusade is an Old Occitan epic poem narrating events of the Albigensian Crusade from March 1208 to June 1219. Modelled on the Old French chanson de geste, it was composed i
Folquet de Marselha
…Wright, Thomas (1856), Johannis de Garlandia De triumphis ecclesiae, London: Nichols Martin-Chabot, Eugène (1931–1961), La Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise, Paris: Les Belles Lettres Boutière, J. and A.-H. Schutz (1964), Biographies des troubadours, Paris: Nizet pp. 470–484…
Louis VIII of France capturing Marmande, from the sole surviving manuscript of the Song of the Albigensian Crusade