Lo Bord del rei d'Arago
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Lo Bord del rei d'Arago is the name assigned to the composer of three coblas in an Occitan chansonnier
. Lo Bord wrote two peticions (or cobles ab resposta, questions) and one remissio (resposta, response) to Rostanh Berenguier de Marselha, who also wrote a fourth peticion of his own to Lo bord, but without a surviving response. This poem without a response, Pos de sa mar man cavalier del Temple, contains internal clues permitting it to be dated to between 1291 and 1310. All these coblas were edited and published by Paul Meyer in Les derniers troubadours de la Provence (Paris, 1871).
The dates, the connexion through his interlocutor with Marseille, and the abundance of illegitimate issue with which he could be identified suggest that Lo bord was a son of James I of Aragon
. Peter III of Aragon
also had bastards: a premarital son by a woman named Maria, the lord of Sogorb Jaume Pere, and John. Anyone of these illegitimate children may have been the bastard-troubadour, but a definitive identification will likely always be elusive.
The poetry of the anonymous royal bastard and Rostanh Berenguier is "insignificant and banal" in the Goliard
ic tradition. It was copied anonymously into the Catalan language
Cançoner de Saragossa in the fifteenth century.
Chansonnier
A chansonnier is a manuscript or printed book which contains a collection of chansons, or polyphonic and monophonic settings of songs, hence literally "song-books," although some manuscripts are so called even though they preserve the text but not the music A chansonnier is a manuscript or...
. Lo Bord wrote two peticions (or cobles ab resposta, questions) and one remissio (resposta, response) to Rostanh Berenguier de Marselha, who also wrote a fourth peticion of his own to Lo bord, but without a surviving response. This poem without a response, Pos de sa mar man cavalier del Temple, contains internal clues permitting it to be dated to between 1291 and 1310. All these coblas were edited and published by Paul Meyer in Les derniers troubadours de la Provence (Paris, 1871).
The dates, the connexion through his interlocutor with Marseille, and the abundance of illegitimate issue with which he could be identified suggest that Lo bord was a son of James I of Aragon
James I of Aragon
James I the Conqueror was the King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona, and Lord of Montpellier from 1213 to 1276...
. Peter III of Aragon
Peter III of Aragon
Peter the Great was the King of Aragon of Valencia , and Count of Barcelona from 1276 to his death. He conquered Sicily and became its king in 1282. He was one of the greatest of medieval Aragonese monarchs.-Youth and succession:Peter was the eldest son of James I of Aragon and his second wife...
also had bastards: a premarital son by a woman named Maria, the lord of Sogorb Jaume Pere, and John. Anyone of these illegitimate children may have been the bastard-troubadour, but a definitive identification will likely always be elusive.
The poetry of the anonymous royal bastard and Rostanh Berenguier is "insignificant and banal" in the Goliard
Goliard
The Goliards were a group of clergy who wrote bibulous, satirical Latin poetry in the 12th and 13th centuries. They were mainly clerical students at the universities of France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and England who protested the growing contradictions within the Church, such as the failure of the...
ic tradition. It was copied anonymously into the Catalan language
Catalan language
Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
Cançoner de Saragossa in the fifteenth century.