Ozil de Cadartz was a French

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 ...

known for only one surviving ''

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'', "Assatz es dregz, pos jois no.m pot venir".Some manuscripts ascribe this song to Guillem de Cabestaing or

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, but modern scholars have generally followed the majority in assigning it to Ozil. It is an ironic text, perhaps parodying the excessive rules of

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. Saverio Guida has suggested that the troubadour is the same person as a youngest son of the family of Bertran, the lord of Cadars in the

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. This Ozil, or Odil, first appears in a charter of donation dated 1160. His eldest brother, also Bertran, and his father can be traced down to 1180, and his other elder brother, Armancz (Armand), down to 1200. Ozil's dates can only be estimated on this basis.

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Bibliografia Elettronica dei Trovatori, v. 2.0
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