Bernart Sicart de Maruèjols (fl. 1230) was a Languedocian troubadour from Marvejols in Lozère. His lone surviving work, a sirventes entitled Ab greu cossire
("With grave worrying"), is of historical interest for its commentary
on the Albigensian
Crusade and the
lost culture of Languedoc from a native perspective.
The sirventes was set to the
metre and melody of another by Guillem
de Cabestany.
Stylistically it follows a work by Peire Cardenal. Essentially it is an attack on the
French crusaders, the military orders of the Temple and Hospital, and the clerics who preached the Crusade and
supported the Papacy. It is a lament full of sadness as
well as anger and hatred, simultaneously emotionally intense and bitingly sarcastic.
It can be dated definitively to 1230 because of the Treaty
of Paris the prior
year, by which Raymond
VII of Toulouse
signed over his rights in southern France to the French king Louis
IX. The poem was dedicated
to James
I of Aragon and
some later interpreters have placed Bernart at James' court, but there is no
documentary evidence to support this.
Sources
- Riquer, Martín
de. Los trovadores: historia literaria y textos.
3
vol. Barcelona: Planeta, 1975.
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