- Gui Guerrejat
Gui Guerrejat ("the warrior") was the fifth son of
William VI of Montpellier . When still a boy, in 1146, he inherited the castles ofPaulhan andle Pouget from his father.After the death of his brother William VII, around 1172, Gui served jointly with
John of Montlaur ,bishop of Maguelonne , as guardian of his nephews, particularly of William VIII who had inherited the lordship. In this capacity Gui and John attended the conference atMezouls in 1174 at whichRaymond V of Toulouse andAlfonso II of Aragon negotiated an agreement with the young William VIII. In October 1174 Gui was at Alfonso II's court atLerida . In 1176 he was among those present when the will was read ofErmessende of Pelet , countess of Melgueil. In 1177 he joinedBernard Ato V of Nîmes and Agde, countessErmengarde of Narbonne , and his nephews William VIII and Gui Burgundion, in an alliance in opposition to Raymond V of Toulouse, who now ruled Melgueil as widower of Ermessende of Pelet.According to her Occitan "vida" (in the "
Biographies des Troubadours "), the trobairitzAzalais de Porcairagues was the lover of Gui Guerrejat; her one surviving poem seems to be addressed to him.In his will, made in February 1178, he made no mention of Azalais; he made a small bequest to his wife Mathive (otherwise unknown) and to her child if she should prove to be pregnant (but she was not). Gui then took holy orders, perhaps aware of impending death, He died later in the same year at the Cistercian monastery of
Valmagne .Bibliography
* A. Sakari, 'Azalais de Porcairagues, le "Joglar" de Raimbaut d'Orange' in "Neuphilologische Mitteilungen" vol. 50 (1949) pp. 23-43, 56-87, 174-198.
* "Biographies des troubadours" ed. J. Boutière, A.-H. Schutz (Paris: Nizet, 1964) pp. 341-2.
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