Bernart de Ventadorn

Bernart de Ventadorn (also: Bernard de Ventadour ) ( 1130-1140 *, † 1190-1200 ) was a troubadour, composer and poet. He was in service of Henry Plantagenet and moved to the coronation of Henry to the English king to England.

Bernart de Ventadorn was possibly the son of a furnace heater at the Castle Ventadour, today in the municipality of Moustier- Ventadour in Correze.

As the first true troubadour Duke William IX. of Aquitaine ( 1071-1127 ). The art of the troubadours reached in the mid-12th century by Bernart de Ventadorn their purest representation and spread to the north ( " Trouvères " ) and East ( German minstrelsy ) from.

Are attributed to him 41 poems ( songs).

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