Paio Soares de Taveirós
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Paio Soares de Taveirós or Paay Soarez de Taveiroos seems to have been a minor Galician nobleman and troubadour
Troubadour
A troubadour was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages . Since the word "troubadour" is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a trobairitz....

 active during the second and third decades of the 13th century. He was a brother of the troubadour Pêro Velho de Taveirós. Of his works, six cantigas de amor, three cantigas de amigo
Cantiga de amigo
The Cantiga de amigo or Cantiga d'amigo , literally a "song about a boyfriend", is a genre of medieval erotic lyric poetry, apparently rooted in a song tradition native to the northwest quadrant of the Iberian Peninsula. What mainly distinguishes the cantiga de amigo is its focus on a world of...

, and two tenso
Tenso
A tenso is a style of Occitan song favoured by the troubadours. It takes the form of a debate in which each voice defends a position on a topic relating to love or ethics. Closely related genres include the partimen and the cobla exchange...

s
(one with Martim Soares and one with his brother) survive.

He may have been one of the earliest authors in Galician-Portuguese lyric
Galician-Portuguese lyric
In the Middle Ages, the Galician-Portuguese lyric, sometimes called trovadorismo in Portugal and trobadorismo in Galicia, was a lyric poetic school or movement. All told, there are around 1680 texts in the so-called "secular lyric" or lírica profana...

, and his Cantiga da Garvaia
Cantiga da Garvaia
Cantiga da Ribeirinha or Cantiga de Guarvaia is one of the first known piece of literature in Galician-Portuguese. This poem was probably composed in 1198 by Paio Soares de Taveirós and received this name because it was dedicated to Maria Pais Ribeiro, lover of Sancho I of Portugal and called of...

, a satiric cantiga de amor (or cantiga de escárnio) is one of the most famous poems in the corpus.
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