Aimeric de Sarlat (fl. c. 1200) was a

troubadour A troubadour (, ; oc, trobador ) was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350). Since the word ''troubadour'' is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a ''trobairit ...

from Sarlat in the

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. According to his ''

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'' he rose by talent from the rank of

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to troubadour, but composed only one song. In fact, four ''

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'' survive under his name. The sole topic with which his surviving work is concerned is

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; he was an imitator of

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. A fifth ''canso'', "Fins e leials e senes tot engan", attributed in the

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s to

Aimeric de Belenoi Aimeric de Belenoi ( fl. 1215–1242 22.) was a Gascon troubadour. At least fifteen of his songs survived. Seven others were attributed to him in some medieval manuscripts. Early life Aimeric was born in the castle of Lesparra in the Bord ...

, has been assigned to Aimeric de Sarlat by modern scholarship, partly because it is directed to

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, wife of

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, to whom Aimeric de Sarlat had addressed his "Ja non creirai q'afanz ni cossiriers". An example of Aimeric's poetry: Aimeric was probably patronised by

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. One of his works may have inspired

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to compose a poem in

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Sources

*''The Vidas of the Troubadours''. Margarita Egan, trans. New York: Garland, 1984. . *Lang, H. R
"The Relations of the Earliest Portuguese Lyric School with the Troubadours and Trouvères."
''Modern Language Notes'', 10:4 (Apr., 1895), pp. 104–116. * Riquer, Martín de. ''Los trovadores: historia literaria y textos''. 3 vol. Barcelona: Planeta, 1975. {{DEFAULTSORT:Aimeric de Sarlat 13th-century French troubadours Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown People from Sarlat-la-Canéda