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Cercamon
Sign in to savethumb|right|Cercamon in a 13th-century chansonnier. Cercamon (, fl. 1135-1145) was one of the earliest troubadours. His true name and other biographical data are unknown. He was apparently a Gascony-born jester of sorts who spent most of his career in the courts of William X of Aquitaine and perhaps of Eble III of Ventadorn. He was the inventor of the planh (the Provençal dirge), of the tenso (a sort of rhymed debate in which two poets write one stanza each) and perhaps of the sirventes.
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- 12th cent.
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- Il trovatore Cercamon
- Les poésies de Cercamon
- The poetry of Cercamon and Jaufré Rudel
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- Cercamon
- date of death
- 1200-01-01
- start of work period
- 1135-00-00
- end of work period
- 1152-00-00
- date of birth
- 1150-00-00
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thumb|right|Cercamon in a 13th-century chansonnier. Cercamon (, fl. 1135-1145) was one of the earliest troubadours. His true name and other biographical data are unknown. He was apparently a Gascony-born jester of sorts who spent most of his career in the courts of William X of Aquitaine and perhaps of Eble III of Ventadorn. He was the inventor of the planh (the Provençal dirge), of the tenso (a sort of rhymed debate in which two poets write one stanza each) and perhaps of the sirventes.
Most of the information about Cercamon's life is nothing but rumour and conjecture; some of his contemporaries credit him as Marcabru's mentor, and some circumstantial evidence points to his dying on crusade as a follower of Louis VII of France.