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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Elias de Barjols (fl. 1191–1230) was a bourgeois Aquitainian troubadour who established himself in Provence and retired a monk. Thirteen of his lyrics survive, but none of his music. he castle of According to his vida Elias was the son of a merchant and came from Agenais. The name of his birth place is peiols in the manuscripts, but such a name can not be found in Agenais nor elsewhere: the most recent edition suggests that peiols is a scribal error for Poiols, ancient name of Pujols, castle placed in Agenais, about 25km from Agen. The identification of peiols as Pérols-sur-Vézère, as Stronski proposed in 1906, is untenable, because this place was not a castle and was not in Agenais, but in Limousin. According to his vida he was the greatest singer of his age (but such a statement is very frequent in the vidas) and he travelled widely from court to court as a jongleur with a fellow jongleur named Oliver. They eventually found favour with Alfonso II of Provence: a document dated to 1208 seems to confirm this. Alfonso gave them wives and land in Barjols, where Elias is witness in a document of Ramon Berenguer IV, count of Provence (Alfonso's son) in 1222.According to his vida Elias fell in love with Garsenda of Sabran, the widow of Alfonso II (died 1209), and composed songs for her \"as long as she lived\". He later entered a hospital of the Fratres Pontifices founded by Beneic in Avignon, where he died.Elias was a practitioner of the trobar leu style. Among his works are two descorts, a partimen, and twelve cansos. Before 1191 Elias wrote a poem describing the cavalier soissebut (or cavalher benestan: ideal, or model, knight) with his characteristics taken from his contemporaries, in imitation of a work by Bertran de Born in which the domna soissebuda (or dompna soiseubuda) is described by features of the exemplary noblewomen of Bertran's time. Elias constructs this knight for his lady from the \"charm\" of Aimar V of Limoges, the \"gracious wit\" of Dalfi d'Alvernha, the \"generosity\" of Eble V of Ventadorn, the \"gaiety\" (guaieza) of Pons de Capdoill, and the \"poetical talents\" (chansos) of Raimon de Miraval.Another poem, Ben deu hom son bon senhor, written probably between 1225 and 1228, has two tornadas referring to Beatrice of Savoy, husband of Raymond Berengar IV of Provence, and the lord Blacatz respectively. The stanza preceding them is full of praise for the Emperor Frederick II, suzerain of Provence, who had good relations with both Raymond Berengar and Blacatz at the time. Besides Alfonso and Alfonso's widow and daughter-in-law, Elias wrote poems to Marguerite of Geneva, wife of Thomas I of Savoy, and mother of Beatrice."@en }

• Elias_de_Barjols abstract "Elias de Barjols (fl. 1191–1230) was a bourgeois Aquitainian troubadour who established himself in Provence and retired a monk. Thirteen of his lyrics survive, but none of his music. he castle of According to his vida Elias was the son of a merchant and came from Agenais. The name of his birth place is peiols in the manuscripts, but such a name can not be found in Agenais nor elsewhere: the most recent edition suggests that peiols is a scribal error for Poiols, ancient name of Pujols, castle placed in Agenais, about 25km from Agen. The identification of peiols as Pérols-sur-Vézère, as Stronski proposed in 1906, is untenable, because this place was not a castle and was not in Agenais, but in Limousin. According to his vida he was the greatest singer of his age (but such a statement is very frequent in the vidas) and he travelled widely from court to court as a jongleur with a fellow jongleur named Oliver. They eventually found favour with Alfonso II of Provence: a document dated to 1208 seems to confirm this. Alfonso gave them wives and land in Barjols, where Elias is witness in a document of Ramon Berenguer IV, count of Provence (Alfonso's son) in 1222.According to his vida Elias fell in love with Garsenda of Sabran, the widow of Alfonso II (died 1209), and composed songs for her \"as long as she lived\". He later entered a hospital of the Fratres Pontifices founded by Beneic in Avignon, where he died.Elias was a practitioner of the trobar leu style. Among his works are two descorts, a partimen, and twelve cansos. Before 1191 Elias wrote a poem describing the cavalier soissebut (or cavalher benestan: ideal, or model, knight) with his characteristics taken from his contemporaries, in imitation of a work by Bertran de Born in which the domna soissebuda (or dompna soiseubuda) is described by features of the exemplary noblewomen of Bertran's time. Elias constructs this knight for his lady from the \"charm\" of Aimar V of Limoges, the \"gracious wit\" of Dalfi d'Alvernha, the \"generosity\" of Eble V of Ventadorn, the \"gaiety\" (guaieza) of Pons de Capdoill, and the \"poetical talents\" (chansos) of Raimon de Miraval.Another poem, Ben deu hom son bon senhor, written probably between 1225 and 1228, has two tornadas referring to Beatrice of Savoy, husband of Raymond Berengar IV of Provence, and the lord Blacatz respectively. The stanza preceding them is full of praise for the Emperor Frederick II, suzerain of Provence, who had good relations with both Raymond Berengar and Blacatz at the time. Besides Alfonso and Alfonso's widow and daughter-in-law, Elias wrote poems to Marguerite of Geneva, wife of Thomas I of Savoy, and mother of Beatrice.".