Peirol or Peiròl was an Auvergnat troubadour who wrote mostly cansos of courtly love in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Thirty-four surviving poems written in Occitan have been attrib
Peirol, from a 13th-century chansonnier
A picture of Peirol illustrates his vida in a 13th-century chansonnier
Gaucelm Faidit was a troubadour, born in Uzerche, in the Limousin, from a family of knights in service of the count of Turenne. He travelled widely in France, Spain, and Hungary. His known patrons inc
Gaucelm Faidit and Guillelma Monja, from a manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale