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2 unusual facts about Raimbaut


Raimbaut

Raimbaut of Orange (1147–1173), or in Occitan Raimbaut d'Aurenga, was the lord of Orange and Aumelas and a troubadour

Raimbaut de Vaqueiras (1180–1207), Provençal troubadour and, later in his life, knight


Raimbaut of Orange

His death in 1173 is mourned in a planh (lament) by Giraut de Bornelh, and also in the only surviving poem of the trobairitz Azalais de Porcairagues, who was the lover of Raimbaut's cousin Gui Guerrejat.

After the early death of Raimbaut's father, his guardians were his uncle William VII of Montpellier and his elder sister Tibors.


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