Miquel de Castillon (or Castilho) was a
troubadour 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
consuls. He was probably the ''Michael de Castilione'' who was of the
knightly class, belonging to family of
vassals 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
Béziers
Béziers (; oc, Besièrs) is a Subprefectures in France, subprefecture of the Hérault Departments of France, department in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie Regions of France, region of Southern France. Every August Béziers hos ...
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.
''A·n Miquel de Castilho'' the ''partimen'' with Codolet and Guiraut
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13th-century French troubadours
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People from Narbonne