Pons d'Ortaffa/Ortafas or Ponç d'Ortafà (c. 1170 – 1246) was a Catalan nobleman and troubadour. The Catalans are the people from Catalonia, an Autonomous community of Spain, including people originating in that region but living elsewhere A troubadour ( IPA:, originally) was a composer and performer of Occitan Lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100&ndash1350 He was the feudal lord of Ortafà, between Perpignan and Elne, in Roussillon. Perpignan ( French: Perpignan, pɛʀpiɲɑ̃ Catalan Perpinyà,) is a commune and the Préfecture (administrative Elne ( French: Elne, ɛln Catalan Elna) is a town and commune of southern France, in the former province of The County of Roussillon or Rosselló was one of the Catalan counties in the Marca Hispanica during the Middle Ages. Only two pieces of his lyric poetry survive, both cansos on courtly love, one with a surviving melody. Lyric poetry refers to a usually short poem that expresses personal feelings which may or may not be set to music The canso or canço is a Song style used by the Troubadours It consists of three parts Courtly love was a Medieval European conception of ennobling love which found its genesis in the ducal and princely courts of Aquitaine, Provence
Pons was born into a minor noble family with a history of producing ecclesiastics for the local church. He was the son and successor of Grimau, who was alive as late as 1184, and Brunissenda. He was born around 1170. His younger brother Pere was the archdeacon of Elne. A position of archdeacon is a senior position in Anglicanism, Syrian Malabar Nasrani, and in some other Christian denominations above that of most He died in 1247 and was buried in Elne Cathedral. Elne Cathedral ( Cathédrale Sainte-Eulalie-et-Sainte-Julie d'Elne) is a former Roman Catholic cathedral and a national monument of France, located in the Pons married Saurina de Tatzó, also of Roussillon, and had three children: his successor Pons II, Grimau, and Alisenda. Pons II was alive as late as 1251.
Pons' name appears on a peace treaty between the lords of Roussillon and their count, Nuño Sánchez, in 1217. Nunyó Sanç (Nuno Sanche (c1185&ndash1242 was a Catalan nobleman and statesman The last documentary record of Pons is his testament, dated 23 July 1240. Events 1632 - Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe France. A second draft was produced in 1246. He probably died soon thereafter.
Pons first poems is Enaissi cum la naus en mar ("Thus like the ship on the sea"), dedicated to a Senher En Berenguier ("Lord Sir Berengar", possibly Berenguier de Palazol, with whom Pons may have had contact early in his life). "Berenguer de Palou" redirects here For the bishops of Barcelona see Berenguer de Palou I and Berenguer de Palou II. The lady of the song was from the Narbonnais, a region in which Pons' father possessed land according to a document of 13 November 1171 now in the Liber Feudorum Maior: de meridie in campo Caput Stagni de Burliano . Narbonne ( Narbona in Catalan and in Occitan, the Roman Narbo) is a commune in southwestern France in the Events 1002 - English king Ethelred orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St . . in termino de Ortafano. It is possible that Pons was travelling in the Narbonnais when he wrote the song, perhaps on family business. In this same song Pons contemplates entering the Cistercian monastery of Jau. The surviving melody of this poem is extremely simple and "frugal" in style.
Pons second poem is Si ai perdut mon saber. It is full of original ideas and some chansonniers assign it to Raimbaut de Vaqueiras or Pons de Capduelh, but the mention of Jau fixes its author as Pons d'Ortaffa, whose lordship was adjacent to Jau. A chansonnier (cançoner cançonièr Galician and cancioneiro canzoniere or canzoniéro cancionero is a Manuscript or printed book which contains a Raimbaut de Vaqueiras or Riambaut de Vaqueyras (floruit 1180-1207 was a Provençal Troubadour and later in his life knight Pons de Capduelh, Capduell, Capdveyll, Capdveill, Capduoill, Capdoill, Capdolh, or Chapteuil (f Pons' verses garnered him prestige in Catalonia. The first verse of Si ai perdut appeared in the Passio Amoris of Jordi de Sant Jordi and in Tant mon voler by Pere Torroella. Jordi de Sant Jordi (late 1390s &ndash c 1424 was born in the Kingdom of Valencia.
Sources
- Aubrey, Elizabeth. The Music of the Troubadours. Indiana University Press, 1996. ISBN 0 253 21389 4.
- Riquer, Martín de. Los trovadores: historia literaria y textos. 3 vol. Barcelona: Planeta, 1975.
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