Peire d'Ussel

Peire d'Ussel or d'Uisel ("Pèire d'Ussèl" in modern Occitan; fl. c. 1200) was a Limousin troubadour, the middle of three brothers, castellans of the castle of Ussel-sur-Sarzonne, northeast of Ventadorn. His elder brother was Eble and his younger Gui, and he also had a cousin named Elias; all four were troubadours. [Aubrey, Elizabeth. "The Music of the Troubadours" (Indiana University Press, 1996), p. 16. ISBN 0 253 21389 4.]

According to Gui's "vida", Peire descanted his relatives’ songs. ["The Vidas of the Troubadours", ed. and trans. Margarita Egan (New York: Garland, 1984), p. 44. ISBN 0 8240 9437 9.] This should not be understood to imply that Peire was only a musician.Perrin, Robert H. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0139%28196323%2916%3A3%3C313%3ADATMAP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23 "Descant and Troubadour Melodies: A Problem in Terms."] "Journal of the American Musicological Society", 16:3, (Autumn, 1963), pp. 313–324.] One "cobla" addressed to Gui exists under his name. The complete works of the four relations of Ussel, including Eble, were first compiled in one volume by J. Audiau as "Les poésies des quatre troubadours d'Ussel" (Paris, Delagrave, 1922). They are all available online at [http://www.trobar.org/troubadours/ussel/ trobar.org] .

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