Eble or Ebles d'Ussel (also d'Ussèl or d'Uisel; fl. c. 1200) was a Limousin troubadour, the eldest of three brothers, castellans of the castle of Ussel-sur-Sarzonne, northeast of Ventadorn. Limousin ( Occitan: Lemosin) is a former Province of France around the city of Limoges in central France. A troubadour ( IPA:, originally) was a composer and performer of Occitan Lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100&ndash1350 A castellan was the Governor or caretaker of a Castle or Keep. Ussel is a commune of the Corrèze department in central France. Moustier-Ventadour is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France. His younger brothers were Peire and Gui and he also had a cousin named Elias, all troubadours. Peire d'Ussel or d'Uisel ( Pèire d'Ussèl in modern Occitan; fl Gui d'Ussel, d'Ussèl, or d'Uisel (fl 1195&ndash1209 was a turn-of-the-thirteenth-century Troubadour of the Limousin. Elias or Elyas d'Ussel or d'Uisel (fl c 1200 was a Limousin Troubadour, the cousin of the three brothers Eble, Peire Of his corpus only one tenso, one partimen (with Guilhem Ademar), and a cobla survive. The partimen, partiment, partia, or joc partit is a Genre of Occitan Lyric poetry Guilhem Ademar (also spelled Guillem, Adamar, or Azemar; fl 1190/1195&ndash1217 was a Troubadour from the Gévaudan. A cobla is a Stanza in Occitan Lyric poetry, the artform of the Troubadours. The only sources for his life, besides his own songs, are the vida of his brother Gui and a document recording the donation of land to the abbey of Bonaigue by two brothers Guido and Eblo Usseli. Vida is the usual term for a brief prose biography written in Occitan, of a Troubadour or Trobairitz. [1] According to Gui's vida, Eble composed "bad tensos". [2]
The complete works of the four relations of Ussel, including Eble, were first compiled in one volume by J. Audiau as Les poésies des quatre troubadours d'Ussel (Paris, Delagrave, 1922). They are all available online at trobar.org.
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