Folquet de Marselha

See also: Foulques

Universally known under the name of Foulques of Toulouse (v. 1155 - 1231), Folquet de Marselha or Foulques of Marseilles is resulting from an established family gênoise with Marseilles. After having been merchant and Troubadour, he was monk of the Ordre of Cîteaux, then finally Evêque of Toulouse. He is among the large troubadours, the only one who assumes the place of the traitor, rejoined with the crusade of Simon de Montfort.

It is a large troubadour with powerful work, recognized in the courses of Barcelona, Toulouse and Provence, when its love disappointed for Eudoxie of Montpellier leads it to take the dress of monk with the project to withdraw world, in 1195, date of its last poem. In 1201 it is named abbot of Thoronet; then bishop of Toulouse of 1205 until its death. It is the only support which the pontifical legates found among the clerks and aristocrats of the South during this terrible repression of a popular heresy.

Thereafter, its character with all his paradox of large poet who has, by love disappointed for a lady, betrayed, will return in the complexes developments of the courtly love which the troubadours continue to compose during the century of crushing of the culture of the South, on the topic of the madness in love, of the agreements and discords between the poetic form and moral control, where its silhouette frequently returns.

With Holy Dominique, he fought against the Hérésie cathare and attended the foundation of the first monasteries of the future Ordre of the Preachers, including Prouille. In 1229 it was among the founders of the medieval university of Toulouse.

François-Juste-Marie Raynouard published some of its poetries.

Works of Folquet

Stanislaw Stronski, the Folquet troubadour of Marseilles . Krakow: Academy of Science, 1910.
Its poetic works (text occitan)
Its letter diocésaine of approval of the preachers of Dominique

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