Guillem Ramon de Gironella
Guillem Ramon de Gironella was a late thirteenth-century
Guillem Ramon was from
All of Guillem Ramon's surviving poetry, four works in total, is preserved in a single
One further reference from Cerverí, however, throws the identification of Guillem Ramon the troubadour with the canon into doubt. Cerverí, in his Testament (1274), says that En Poncet[1] is grateful to the don de Gironella (lord of Gironella), but Guillem Ramon was not the feudal lord of Gironella nor even a nobleman, but a cleric. Whether Cerverí was confused or Guillem Ramon only took up his clerical career late in life is not known.
In two of his cansos—"Gen m'apareill" and "La clara lutz del bel jorn"—Guillem Ramon celebrates a person by the senhal (or nickname) Sobreluenh ("Over-a-distance"), but whether this is his lady or a friend, like the viscount of Cardona or Cabrera is debated. Ramon Guillem was familiar with the poem Erec and Enide of Chrétien de Troyes, as he makes known in "Gen m'apareill":
- Cor es de bos aips complida
- deu esser enantida
- sa valors, s'ap si m'acueill;
- enquer n'er meils que d'Enida
- can Erecs l'ac enrequida,
- quar mais la tem e l'am meils.
He also wrote the canso "Pos l'amors r'ensen".
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Sources
- Riquer, Martín de. Los trovadores: historia literaria y textos. 3 vol. Barcelona: Planeta, 1975.