Rigaut de Berbezilh

Troubadour · Writers · Lived 1120 to 1163 · aged 43

Rigaut de Berbezilh was a troubadour of the petty nobility of Saintonge. He was a great influence on the Sicilian School and is quoted in the Roman de la Rose. About fifteen of his poems survive, including one planh and nine or ten cansos. His name is sometimes given as Richart or Richartz.

Rigaut de Berbezilh is read about 4 times a day, in 8 languages.

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Rigaut, with his name spelled "Richautz de Barbesieu" above his picture, beside his vida introducing his works in a medieval chansonnier.

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Writers born in the 1120s 6

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