Azalais d'Altier

Azalais or Azalaïs d'Altier was an early-13th-century trobairitz. She was from Altier in the Gévaudan. She has sometimes been confused with Almucs de Castelnau.

Azalais wrote "Tanz salutz e tantas amors", the only salut d'amor by a woman. It comprises 101 verses of rhyming couplets. Its purpose was to reconcile two lovers, and it was addressed to a woman, possibly Clara d'Anduza. Nonetheless, the great troubadour ignored her when composing the vidas.

Azalais herself was a woman of learning, and she must have been familiar with the Matter of Rome through the Roman de Troie of Benoît de Sainte-Maure, which she references in her salut: Brizeida, qar ilh for cangiare sos cors, qar laiset Troilus'''per amar lo fil Tideus.| Cressida, because she was inconstant of heart, left Troilus to love Tydeus' son.

There is today a street named "Rue Azalais d'Altier" in Montpellier.