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'' he was a courtly man who loved high society. The author of the ''vida'' also expresses admiration for his

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s but bewails the excessive number he composed, though so few of his works survive to this day. He was also said to have composed ''sirventes joglarescs'', or ''sirventes'' in the manner of joglars, in order to criticise "the barons" (presumably the high noblesse). He also wrote a work criticising the prolific trouvère Theobald I of Navarre. The troubadour

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twice mentions another troubadour by the initials P.G., possibly indicating Peire Guilhem. He mourns a certain P.G. in a '' planh'', where the initials probably stand in the manuscript for a full name, since three syllables would be required by the metre. Perhaps Pey Guillem, Pey being a hypocoristic form of Peire, is intended. In another case Bertran directs a '' sirventes'' of admonition against a troubadour identified only by his initials: ''.P. / ponchat et enapres un .G.''. According to his ''vida'' he entered the "Order of ''Spaza''", probably the "Order of the Sword", meaning either the Order of Santiago or the

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Sources

*''The Vidas of the Troubadours''. Margarita Egan, trans. New York: Garland, 1984. . *"PC 345: Peire Guillem de Toloza," ''Bibliografia Elettronica dei Trovatori'', v. 1.5. {{authority control Writers from Toulouse 13th-century French troubadours Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown