- Peironet
Peironet or Peyronet was a Catalan
troubadour andjongleur ("juglar" in contemporary records). "Peironet" is a diminutive of theOccitan name "Peire", meaning Peter. He might be the same person asPere Salvatge .He was travelling with the entourage of the "
infante " Peter, the heir toJames I of Aragon , in October 1268 atSant Celoni . He composed a "tenso " with the "infante" discussing the war with theCounty of Urgell that Peter had waged from September to December that year. Peironet and another jongleur who does not participate in the poetic exchange, Arnaut "tritxador", were apparently carrying a message to the "infante" about the status of his father the king. In the "tenso" Peironet talks about "armes i amors", war and love, the two favourite themes of the troubadours. The song, theincipit of which is "Can vey En Peyronet ploran" ("When Sir Peironet came crying"), consists of two stanzas by the heir and a two-stanza response from the messenger.References
*Riquer, Martí de (1964). "Història de la Literatura Catalana", vol. 1. Barcelona: Edicions Ariel.
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