Macías (troubadour)
Macías (approx. 1340-1370) was a Galicia (Spain), Galician Trovadorismo, troubadour and one of the last Galician medieval poets. Life Little is known about the life of Macías. His successor and compatriot Juan Rodríguez de la Cámara establishes that Macías was a native of Galicia. H. A. Rennert has determined the time period in which he lived based on a number of references, the earliest and most important of which is Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquess of Santillana’s 1449 letter to the Constable of Portugal Dom Pedro. In the letter, the Marqués mentions Macías as a contemporary of two late-fourteenth century poets, Basco Pérez de Camoes and Ferrant Casquiçio, whose lives are better documented. Don Martín de Ximena y Jurado in the ''Anales Eclesiásticos de Jaén,'' provides us with Macías’s probable resting place, the church of the castle of Santa Catalina in Arjonilla, a town near Jaén, Spain, Jaén. Poetry Five poems (or cantigas) in the 1445 Cancione ...
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