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Events Works published * by Bonifaci VI de Castellana, attack on Charles of Anjou * {{Lang, oc, L'autre jorn m'anava, a ''pastorela'' by Guiraut Riquier Births * Cecco Angiolieri (died 1312), Italian Deaths *26 August — Alberico da Romano (born 1196), patron and troubadour, executed * Richard de Fournival (born 1201), a Trouvère 13th-century poetry Poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

Bonifaci VI De Castellana
Bonifaci VI de Castellana or Castelhana (french: Boniface de Castellane; fl. 1244–1265) was a Provençal knight and lord, one of the last of the great independent seigneurs of the land before the reign of Charles of Anjou (1246). He is first mentioned in 1244 and succeeded his father as lord of Castellana on 13 June 1249. He was a bellicose Ghibelline. In 1248, Bonifaci and Barral of Baux led a rebellion against Charles of Anjou, who was gone on the Seventh Crusade. Charles suppressed the uprising after he returned in 1250. Bonifaci's turbulent political career can be traced through his three surviving ''sirventes'', lyric poetic works on political themes in the Occitan language, each written at different points in his conflict with Charles of Anjou. In the latter half of 1252 he wrote ''Era, pueis yverns es e.l fil'', an attack on clerics (the Papacy supported Charles), Henry III of England (relative of Charles by marriage), and even James I of Aragon (he did not avenge ...
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