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Guiraut de Calanson
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Guiraut de Calanson was an early thirteenth-century Occitan troubadour/jongleur whose surviving reputation rests on a small but distinctive body of lyric poetry. Modern reference works place his activity around the first decades of the 1200s and describe him as a professional performer-poet (“jongleur”), perhaps connected with Gascony. His work ranges across courtly genres—canzoni and descorts—while one of his best-known pieces is the mock didactic poem Fadet joglar, a sharp-edged “lesson” aimed at a fellow entertainer. He also wrote at least one datable lament: a planh for Fernando of Castile, who died in 1211, showing that his poetry could respond directly to the politics and patronage networks of his time. In the manuscript tradition, he is remembered visually as well as textually: the great troubadour chansonniers include him in their miniature cycles, preserving an iconic medieval “portrait” that stands in for the sparse facts of his life. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
