Guillaume le Vinier

Guillaume le Vinier (c. 1190–1245) was a cleric and trouvère, one of the most prolific composers in the genre. He has left compositions in all the major subgenres of trouvère poetry: chansons d'amour, jeux-partis, a lai, a descort, a chanson de mal mariée and a ballade.

Guillaume was well-connected to the other trouvères active in and around Arras. He composed jeux-partis with Colart le Boutellier, Andrieu Contredit and Adam de Givenchi for certain, and may also have collaborated with Moniot d'Arras, Thomas Herier and the King of Navarre. Colart, Adam and Jehan Erart all dedicated works to him. He expressed a debt of gratitude to Gace Brulé's style in "Voloirs de faire" and quoted Gace's "N'est pas a soi" in one of his jeux-partis with Gilles. The unaccredited Marian song "Vierge pucele roiaus", which is modelled on the Old Occitan piece "Lo clar tems vei brunezir" by Raimon Jordan, may belong to Guillaume.

Most of Guillaume's music is in bar form, although "" is given partially in mensural notation in the Chansonnier Cangé. His melodies typically have a range greater than an octave. According to Karp, "modal interpretation of the melodies does not seem appropriate".

The date of Guillaume's death must be before Pentecost (4 June) in the year of 1245, since he is inscribed in the Necrology of the Confrérie des jongleurs et des bourgeois d'Arras for that year.

List of songs Solo works (dedicated to Thomas de Castel)

(dedicated to Gilles le Vinier)

(dedicated to a "", perhaps Huon, chastellain d'Arras)

(dedicated to Jehan Bretel)

with Adam de Givenchi

with Gilles le Vinier

with Andrieu Contredit

with Colart le Boutellier

possibly with Moniot d'Arras

with Gilles le Vinier

possibly with the King of Navarre

possibly with Thomas Herier