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Peirol
Sign in to savethumb|right|Peirol, from a 13th-century chansonnier Peirol or Peiròl (, ; born c. 1160, fl. 1188–1222/1225, died in the 1220s) was an Auvergnat troubadour who wrote mostly cansos of courtly love in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Thirty-four surviving poems written in Occitan have been attributed to him; of these, seventeen (sixteen of them love songs) have surviving melodies. He is sometimes called '''Peirol d'Auvergne or Peiròl d'Auvèrnha, and erroneously Pierol'''.
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- 1160-01-01
- Died
- 1221-01-01
- Works
- 6
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- Die Lieder Peires von Auvergne
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Peirol (birth ca. 1160, known in 1188–1222/1225, death in the 1220s) was an Auvergnat troubadour who wrote mostly cansos of courtly love in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Thirty-four surviving poems written in Occitan have been attributed to him; of these, seventeen (sixteen of them love songs) have surviving melodies. He is sometimes called Peirol d'Auvergne or Peiròl d'Auvèrnha, and erroneously Pierol. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Peirol">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 1160
- Died
- 1 January 1221
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of France
- Occupation
- poet
- Languages spoken
- Old Occitan
- Image
- BnF ms. 12473 fol. 42 - Peirol (1).jpg
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Article
7 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Courtly love
- Crusading songs
- Bibliography
- Modern recordings
- References
- External links
thumb|right|Peirol, from a 13th-century chansonnier Peirol or Peiròl (, ; born c. 1160, fl. 1188–1222/1225, died in the 1220s) was an Auvergnat troubadour who wrote mostly cansos of courtly love in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Thirty-four surviving poems written in Occitan have been attributed to him; of these, seventeen (sixteen of them love songs) have surviving melodies. He is sometimes called '''Peirol d'Auvergne or Peiròl d'Auvèrnha, and erroneously Pierol'''.
== Biography == Not much is known of his life, and any attempt to establish his biography from a reading of his poems is soundly rejected by the most recent scholarship.