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Raimbaut de Vaqueiras (floruit 1180-1205) was a Provençal troubadour and warrior. His life was spent mainly in Italian courts[1] until 1203, when he joined the Fourth Crusade. Provençal (Prouvençau in Provençal language) is one of several dialects of the Romance language Occitan, which is spoken by a minority of people in southern France and other areas of France. ...
A troubadour was a composer and performer of songs during the Middle Ages in Europe. ...
The Fourth Crusade (1201–1204), originally designed to conquer Jerusalem through an invasion of Egypt, instead, in 1204, invaded and conquered the Eastern Orthodox city of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire. ...
As his name suggests, he came from Vacqueyras near Orange, France. He was a close friend of Boniface of Montferrat. Raimbaut claimed he had a knighthood through song, but he was also a fighting man. He was present at the siege and capture of Constantinople in 1204, and then accompanied Boniface to Thessalonica. His writings, particularly the so-called Epic Letter, form an important commentary on the politics of the Latin Empire in its first two years, 1204 and 1205, after which they suddenly cease: it is generally presumed that Raimbaut died in the latter year. Roman theatre at Orange, France Orange (Arenjo in Provençal) is a city in the département of Vaucluse, in the south of France. ...
Boniface of Montferrat (c. ...
The silver Anglia knight, commissioned as a trophy in 1850, intended to represent the Black Prince. ...
Map of Constantinople. ...
The White Tower The Arch of Galerius Map showing the Thessaloníki prefecture Thessaloníki (Θεσσαλονίκη) is the second-largest city of Greece and is the principal city and the capital of the Greek region of Macedonia. ...
The Latin Empire, Empire of Nicaea, Empire of Trebizond and the Despotate of Epirus. ...
Raimbaut composed between 26 and 30 songs, 8 with melodies. He used a wide range of styles, including a descort in five languages, cansos, tensos and albas. One of his songs, Kalenda Maia, is referred to as an estampida and is considered one of the best troubadour melodies. However according to the razó he borrowed the tune from two musicians. This would explain why the song is called an estampida when it is theorically a purely instrumental piece. A tenso is a song style favoured by the troubadours. ...
Alba is the ancient and modern Gaelic name (IPA: ) for the country of Scotland (also Alba in Irish, and in Old Gaelic Albu). ...
Notes
- ^ Amelia E. Van Vleck, The Lyric Texts p. 33, in Handbook of the Troubadours (1995), edited by F. R. P. Akehurst and Judith M. Davis.
External links
Bibliography - The poems of the troubadour Raimbaut de Vaqueiras ed. and tr. Joseph Linskill. The Hague: Mouton, 1964.
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