Elias Cairel
Troubadour and poet · Writers · Died 1222
Elias Cairel was a troubadour of international fame. Born in Sarlat in the Périgord, he first travelled with the Fourth Crusade and settled down in the Kingdom of Thessalonica at the court of Boniface of Montferrat (1204-1208/10) before moving back to western Europe, where he sojourned at the court of Alfonso IX of...
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Born in Sarlat in the Périgord, he first travelled with the Fourth Crusade and settled down in the Kingdom of Thessalonica at the court of Boniface of Montferrat (1204-1208/10) before moving back to western Europe, where he sojourned at the court of Alfonso IX of León (1210-11) and in Lombardy (1219-1222/24). He wrote fourteen surviving lyrics: ten cansos, one tenso, one descort, one sirventes, and one Crusade song. He was partial to refrain rhyming and coblas capfinidas.
