Guiraut de Calanson

Guiraut de Calanson was an early thirteenth-century Occitan troubadour/jongleur whose surviving reputation rests on a small but distinctive body of lyric poetry. Modern reference works place his activity around the first decades of the 1200s and describe him as a professional performer-poet (“jongleur”), perhaps connected with Gascony. His work ranges across courtly genres—canzoni and descorts—while one of his best-known pieces is the mock didactic poem Fadet joglar, a sharp-edged “lesson” aimed at a fellow entertainer.