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Peire Rogier[a] (born c. 1145) was a twelfth-centuryAuvergnattroubadour (fl. 1160 – 1180) and cathedral canon fromClermont. He left his cathedral to become a travellingminstrel before settling down for a time inNarbonne at the court ofViscountess Ermengard. His life and career are known because his late thirteenth-centuryvida survives, as well as some of his works. The reliability of hisvida, upon which all the details of his goings and comings are known, however, is not complete. According to it, he left the religious life to become ajongleur.
He fell in love with his hostess and patron and wrote many songs in her honour, giving Ermengard the nicknameTort-n'avetz ("You are wrong"), but for what reasons is unknown.[1] Eventually the people of the Narbonnaise believed that he was in a sexual relationship with the viscountess and so she asked him to leave. He moved on to the court ofRaimbaut d'Aurenga, where he also remained for a long time. From Raimbaut's court he moved on to sojourn at that ofAlfonso VIII of Castile, then that ofAlfonso II of Aragon, and finally that ofRaymond V of Toulouse, where he arrived circa 1170.[1][2] According to hisvida, he became much esteemed as a troubadour through his travels, but there is no evidence otherwise for any movements in Spain, except perhaps the assembly of troubadours at the court of Aragon mentioned in a work ofPeire d'Alvernhe (which need not have taken place).[3] He entered theOrder of Grandmont before his death.[1]
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Peire Rogier's style ofcourtly love poetry is of the extremely reverent variety, in which the man submits completely to his lady and she is a paragon of virtue and courtliness (though the wordcortezia is absent from his surviving works).[4][5] She can by mere words convert a boorish man into a courtly one.[6] Love need not be physical to be enjoyed and suffering on behalf of one's lady is considered pleasure.[5] From one of his works:
Tant ai mon cor en joy assis,
per que no puesc mudar no'n chan,
que joys m'a noirit pauc e gran;
e ses luy non seria res,
qu'assatz vey que tot l'als qu'om fay
abaiss' e sordey' e dechai,
mas so qu'amors e joys soste.
My heart is so fixed on joy
that I cannot help but sing,
for as a child and an adult, joy has nourished me.
Without it, I’d be nothing.
I see that everything else that people do
degrades, dishonors, and defames
if love and joy do not sustain it.[1]
He has been alleged as the author of theRoman de Flamenca,[7] but as this was written around 1234–1235, he would have done so while about ninety years of age, which is hardly likely.[8] However, the author of theFlamenca probably imitated the dialogue of Peire Rogier's poems.[8] As the originator of internal dialogue in the troubadour lyric, Peire Rogier was also imitated byGuiraut de Bornelh.
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