List of Galician-Portuguese troubadours
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Galician-Portuguese
Galician-Portuguese or Old Portuguese was a West Iberian Romance language spoken in the Middle Ages, in the northwest area of the Iberian Peninsula. It was first spoken in the area bounded in the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean and the Douro River in the south but it was later extended south...
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Galicia
- Bernal de Bonaval
- MacíasMacíasMacías was a Galician troubadour and one of the last Galician medieval poets.-Life:Much is known about the life of Macías. His successor and compatriot Juan Rodríguez de la Cámara establishes that Macías was a native of Galicia. H. A...
- Martim Soares
- Martín CodaxMartín CodaxMartín Codax or Martim Codax was a Galician medieval jogral , possibly from Vigo, Galicia in present day Spain. He may have been active during the middle of the thirteenth century, judging from scriptological analysis...
- MendinhoMendinhoMendinho, also Meendinho, Mendiño and Meendiño, was a medieval Iberian poet.Nothing is known about Mendinho except by inference. Scholars generally assume from the reference to the shrine of San Simión that he was Galician...
- Paio Gomes Charinho
- Paio Soares de TaveirósPaio Soares de TaveirósPaio Soares de Taveirós or Paay Soarez de Taveiroos seems to have been a minor Galician nobleman and troubadour active during the second and third decades of the 13th century. He was a brother of the troubadour Pêro Velho de Taveirós...
- PallaPalla (troubadour)Palla was a Galician-Portuguese troubadour or minstrel from Santiago de Compostela, active at the court of Alfonso VII of León in the mid-twelfth century....
- Pêro Velho de Taveirós
Portugal
- Afonso Sanches
- Aires Corpancho
- Aires Nunes
- Bernardo Bonaval
- Denis of PortugalDenis of PortugalDinis , called the Farmer King , was the sixth King of Portugal and the Algarve. The eldest son of Afonso III of Portugal by his second wife, Beatrice of Castile and grandson of king Alfonso X of Castile , Dinis succeeded his father in 1279.-Biography:As heir to the throne, Infante Dinis was...
- João Soares de PaivaJoão Soares de PaivaJoão Soares de Paiva was a Portuguese poet and nobleman; often recognised as the first author in the Galician-Portuguese language. He held lands in northern Portugal near the falls of the river Paiva and also in Aragon, near Monzón, Tudela, and Pamplona, near the border with Navarre, as fiefs of...
- João LobeiraJoão LobeiraJoão Lobeira was a Portuguese troubadour of the time of King Afonso III, who is supposed to have been the first to reduce into prose the story of Amadis de Gaula....
- João ZorroJoão zorroJoão Zorro was a Portuguese troubadour who lived in the later thirteenth century. He is noted for his poems about ancient sailors, written on the eve of the great voyages of discovery....
- Nuno Fernandes Torneol