About Jaufre de Pons
Jaufre de Pons was a French troubadour, composer and knight.
Jaufre de Pons or Pon ( or , , modern English: Geoffrey) was a 13th-century knight and troubadour from the castle of Pons in the March of Poitou in the Saintonge. He composed tensos with his castellan, Rainaut de Pons. Jaufre's part in the debate consists in asking plain youthful questions about love only to receive the bitter and experienced answers of Guiraut in proverbial form.
Jaufre was probably the husband of Isabeau, daughter of Henry II of Rodez, a patron of troubadours. In 1292 he rendered homage to the lord of Châteauroux.
Some scholars have suspected that there were more than one Jaufre de Pons (one from the Saintonge and another from the Toulousain). One Jaufre has been placed as early as 1200–1220. There were several Jaufres who were lords of Pons, so identifying the troubadour among them or their relatives is difficult based on the slender documentation.
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Who was Jaufre de Pons?
French troubadour
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Jaufre de Pons was a troubadour, composer and knight.
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Jaufre de Pons was French.
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