Bernard de Ventadour

See also: Ventadour

Bernard de Ventadorn , born towards 1125 with Ventadour, died after 1195, is one of most famous the Troubadour S.

Its biography, very fictionalized because drawn from the Emptied S later written one half-century per CPU of Saint-Circ, is badly known. He is known as son of a man-at-arms and a baker of the castle of Ventadour in Corrèze. It is not certain that it was of origin modest and certain compare it to a member of the line of Ventadour which died abbot of Saint Martin's day de Tulle. He became the disciple of his lord, the Viscount Ebles III Lo Cantador which informed it in art of lyric the composition known as trobar . He would have composed his first songs for the woman of the son of this lord, which was worth to him to be driven out of Ventadour.

He then followed as far as England the court of Aliénor of Aquitaine become the wife of king Henri II Plantagenet, then passed to the service of Raymond V of Toulouse for, according to his Vida , to finish his life with the Abbaye of Dalon…

Its songs - drawing papers in occitan - rich and limpid, are nourished personal feelings. One regards it as one of the best musicians of his time and among the largest poets of the love in language of oc.

Extract

Lo tems vai E Venn E transfers

Lo tems vai E Venn E transfers
Per jorns, per my E per years,
And have, tired no.n sai that to say,
It ades is custom mos talans.
Ades be custom E no.s muda,
It una.n volh e.n have volguda,
Gift anc not aic jauzimen.

Pea ela no.n PERT lo to laugh,
E me.n Venn E frauds E in,
It has tal joc has me faih assire
Don have lo peyor back tans,
- It aitals amors is perduda
That are of una share mantenguda -
Tro that fai acordamen…

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