Miquel de Castillon (or Castilho) 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 ...

of Narbonne. A man of high standing in the city, he was called a ''probus homo'' (good man) in 1270 when consulted by the city

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s. He was probably the ''Michael de Castilione'' who was of the

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ly class, belonging to family of

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s of the

Viscounts of Narbonne The viscount of Narbonne was the secular ruler of Narbonne in the Middle Ages. Narbonne had been the capital of the Visigoth province of Septimania, until the 8th century, after which it became the Carolingian Viscounty of Narbonne. Narbonne was nom ...

. According to a hypothesis of Joseph Anglade, he may have been the same person as the ''Miquel de Gaucelm de Beziers'' who had ties to the troubadours of

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and was probably a royal vicar at that city or at the court of Narbonne. Miquel, Codolet, and Guiraut Riquier composed a '' torneyamen'' (a three-way '' partimen''). Miquel also appears as the judge of another ''partimen'', called ''Falco, dona avinen'', in a poetic contest. Codolet (or Codolen) is probably to be identified with the ''Raymundus de Codoleto'' who is called a ''civis Narbone'' or citizen of Narbonne. He was from Codolet, near Pont-Saint-Esprit.

References

* Jeanroy, Alfred (1934). ''La poésie lyrique des troubadours''. Toulouse: Privat.
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