Elias Fonsalada

Elias (de) Fonsalada (fl. late 12th/first quarter of the 13th century) was a troubadour from Bergerac in the Périgord (the Diocese of Périgueux according to his vida). Only two cansos of his survive.

His vida goes further in describing him as a handsome man of the middle class, the son of a burgher and jongleur, who himself became a jongleur. The biographer did not regard him as an accomplished trobaire (troubadour/composer/inventor of poetry) but as a noellaire. Thus Elias' vida provides a rare glimpse of narrative vernacular writing in Occitan at the height of the troubadour art.

The poem En Abriu is assigned to Elias in manuscript C (a 14th-century work now known as f.f. 856 in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris). This attribution, however, is contradicted by other sources and the poem is usually given to Marcabru.