Gormonda de Monpeslier
Gormonda de Monpeslier (documented around 1226 to 1229) was an Occitan Trobairitz .
Her only surviving song, a Sirventes under the title Greu m'es a durar , is a political abuse of the Albigensians , who she attests to be more dangerous than Islam, which is why the Albigensian Crusade is justified.
The song is rated as the first French-language political poetry by a woman. Since it is based on a papal point of view and is held in response to an anti-papal poem by Guilhem Figueira , it has been suggested that Gormonda belonged to the Dominican Sisters or some other ecclesiastical grouping. According to her name addition (Monpeslier, Monpelhier) she came from or worked in Montpellier .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ursula Liebertz-Grün: Courtly authors. From the Carolingian cultural reform to humanism. In: Gisela Brinker-Gabler (Ed.), German Literature by Women , Volume 1, Darmstadt / Munich 1988. ISBN 3406331181 . P. 47
- ^ Katharina Städtler: The Sirventes by Gormonda de Monpeslier. In: William D. Paden: The Voice of the Trobairitz: Perspectives on the Women Troubadours . Philadelphia 1989.
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| SURNAME | Gormonda de Monpeslier |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Occitan Trobairitz |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 12th century or 13th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 13th Century |