Guiraut de Calanson

Girautz de calanson si fo uns ioglars de gascoigna. . ."Guiraut de Calanso was a jongleur from Gascony. . ." Giraut or Guiraut de Calanso or Calanson (fl. 1202–1212) was a Gascon troubadour in the Occitan language. Of his lyric works that remain five are cansos, two descorts, a congé, a planh, and a vers (generic poem). He also wrote a mock ensenhamen (didactic poem) entitled Fadet juglar.

Guiraut's hometown cannot be located. It may be a Calanso in Gascony or one of two locales named Chalançon, one in Ardèche and one in Drôme. According to his vida he was originally a jongleur well-versed in letters.

Guiraut was an often present at the courts of Castile, León, and Aragon.

Of the rest of Guiraut's corpus at least two works are conscious imitations. His lone vers is in imitation of Arnaut Daniel. Much later, in 1280, Guiraut Riquier, for a competition, wrote a commentary on a work of Guiraut de Calanso's for Henry II of Rodez. None of Guiraut de Calanso's music, if he wrote any, has survived.