Elias Cairel
Elias Cairel , also known as Cayrel , was a trobador at the beginning of the 13th century.
He came from Sarlat in Périgord , but found a patron in the Piedmontese margrave Bonifatius von Montferrat . Cairel accompanied him on the fourth crusade from 1202 and remained in Greece for a few years after the death of the margrave in 1207. He then moved to the court of King Alfonsus IX. of León and was probably present at the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212). He later moved to Lombardy , where he was last mentioned around 1222/24.
A medieval vida has come down to us about Elias Cairel , according to which he was originally a gold, silver and weapons smith before he began his life as a traveling singer. From Cairel himself ten cansons , a sirventes (for the Marquis of Montferrat), a descort and a tenso (which he led with a Trobairitz named Ysabella) have been preserved.
literature
- Vincenzo de Bartholomaeis : Un Sirventés historique d'Élias Cairel , in: Annales du Midi 16 (1904), pp. 468-494
- Hilde Jaeschke: The Troubadour Elias Cairel , in: Romanische Studien , ed. by E. Ebering (Berlin 1921), pp. 149–151
- Giosue Lachin: Il trovatore Elias Cairel (Modena 2004)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Elias Cairel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Elias Cayrel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Trobador |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 12th Century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sarlat, Périgord |
| DATE OF DEATH | between 1222 and 1224 |