Bertran Folcon d'Avignon

Bertran Folcon d'Avignon or Bertran Folco d'Avinhon (fl. 1202–1233) was a Provençal nobleman and troubadour from Avignon. He was a faithful partisan of Raymond VI and Raymond VII of Toulouse in Provence, and participated in the wars against the Albigensian Crusade. He was inside the city during the siege of Beaucaire in 1216. In 1226 Raymond VII appointed him bailiff of Avignon.

Of Bertran's poetic works are conserved only two "coblas" written in response to Gui de Cavalhon. This exchange between Bertran and Gui is of some historical interest. Raymond VII had moved an army against Castelnou d'Arry early in 1220 but was forced to lift his siege to deal with an offensive of Amaury de Montfort. He returned to besiege the place in July and brought in Gui to oversee the circumvallation. In the third month of the siege, October–November, Gui decided to request the assistance of Bertran in a poem, with the intention of hurrying the town's surrender. Gui evidently knew Bertran from some previous encounter and they address each other with friendly satire. This entire story is found in Gui's "vida", with the exchange of "coblas" appended to it in manusciprt "H". [Egan, 42. "H" is a late 13th-century Lombard chansonnier in the Biblioteca Vaticana in Rome. Now classified as Latin 3207.]

According to Alfred Jeanroy, Raimon de las Salas composed a "partimen" with Bertran, who proposed the dilemma: who are better at making war, feasts, and gifts, the Lombards or Provençals? Raimon praises his compatriots and puts down Lombard women as big and ugly. Linda Paterson, however, does not identify Raimon's interlocutor, who is known only as Bertran, with Folco d'Avinhon.

ources

*Egan, Margarita (1984). "The Vidas of the Troubadours". New York: Garland. ISBN 0 8240 9437 9.
*Guida, Saverio (1972). "Per la biografia di Gui de Cavaillon e di Bertran Folco d’Avignon." "Culture neolatina", 32, pp. 189–210.
*Guida, Saverio (2002). [http://www.rialto.unina.it/GuiCav/premessa-192.2(Guida).htm Premessa all’edizione in linea della tenzone fra Gui de Cavaillon e Bertran Folco d’Avignon (192.2, 83.2)]
*Jeanroy, Alfred (1934). "La poésie lyrique des troubadours". Toulouse: Privat.
*Paterson, Linda M. (1993). "The World of the Troubadours: Medieval Occitan Society, c. 1100–c. 1300". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0 521 55832 8.

External links

* [http://www.rialto.unina.it/GuiCav/192.2(Guida).htm# Gui de Cavaillon · Bertran Folco d’Avignon] , edited by Saverio Guida (1973)

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