Folquet de Marselha

Folquet de Marselha ( German: Folquet and Fulk of Marseille, French: Fo ( u) lquet de Marseille, Italian: Folco and Folchetto di Marsiglia, English Folc and Folquet of Marseille, * 1150, † December 25, 1231. ) Was a troubadour, after 1195 abbot of Thoronet and 1206-1231 Bishop of Toulouse.

Life

As a troubadour he had from 1170 contacts to Raimund Gottfried II of Marseille, Richard I., Raymond V of Toulouse ( 1134-1194 ), Raymond Roger of Foix, Alfonso II of Aragon and William VIII of Montpellier. He was married and had two sons. He was Cistercian, was elected bishop in 1205 and supported as such 1206/1207 the establishment of a Convention for Katharerinnen converted by Diego de Acebo and Domingo de Guzman ( St. Dominic ) in Prouille.

He was buried next to William VII of Montpellier in the Abbey Grandselves.

Friedrich von Hausen has imitated a song by him.

It is received at least one double leaf from his Troubadourhandschrift.

Mill without water

Pierre Aubry, one of the pioneers in the field of study and edition of the musical compositions of the troubadours, led in 1909 to reaffirm the close relationship between the poetry and music of the troubadours on a maxim that he was " at an old troubadour, Folquet de Marseille, think I, "said to have been found, namely, that " the verse without music is a mill without water " is this dictum has since assumed the character of a winged word that circulates in different variations, in the form" one verse "or" a song " ( " une chanson "," a song " ) or" a poem " ( " a poem " ) " without music "is" like a mill " without water or" no wind ", which then usually remain Foulqet or an unknown troubadour is attributed. In fact, this quote is not from Folquet, but by another, relatively less known troubadour from Marseille, Bertran Carbonel:

Critical editions

• Paolo Squillacioti: Le poesie di di Marsiglia Folchetto. Pacini, Pisa 1999 ( = Biblioteca degli Studi Mediolatini e volgari, nuova serie, 15)
• Paolo Squillacioti: Folquet de Marselha: poetry. Carocci, Rome 2003 ( = Biblioteca Medievale, 86) [ with a new introduction and improvements in the text against Squillacioti 1999 ]
• Stanislaw Stronski: Le troubadour Folquet De Marseille. Krakow: Academy of Sciences, 1910