Pons de Monlaur or Montlaur was a

Provençal Provençal may refer to: *Of Provence, a region of France * Provençal dialect, a dialect of the Occitan language, spoken in the southeast of France *''Provençal'', meaning the whole Occitan language *Franco-Provençal language, a distinct Roman ...

baron and

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of the early thirteenth century. He was the lord of Montlaur-en-Diois and married Guida, sister of

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, in 1235. Hugh was a patron of troubadours and Pons had a connexion through his wife also to

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, who addressed her in several poems under the ''senhals'' (epithets) ''N'Agradavit'' and ''Restaur''. The French painter

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, during a stay in Montlaur, collected the local

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and enjoyed retelling the legends of Pons de Montlaur. Pons wrote "Qal preiatz mais.a ops d'amor", a ''

partimen The ''partimen'' (; ca, partiment ; also known as ''partia'' or ''joc partit'') is a cognate form of the French jeu-parti (plural ''jeux-partis''). It is a genre of Occitan lyric poetry composed between two troubadours, a subgenre of the ''tenso'' ...

'' with a poet called "Esperdut", probably

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Sources

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