Le Moine de Montaudon

"Lo monges de Montaudon" from a 13th-century chansonnier now in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. The (Lo) Monge de Montaudon (meaning "monk of Montaudon") (fl. 1193–1210 ), born Pèire de Vic, was a nobleman, monk, and troubadour from the Auvergne, born at the castle of Vic-sur-Cère near Aurillac, where he became a Benedictine monk around 1180. According to his vida, he composed "couplets while he was in the monastery and sirventes on subjects that were popular in the region."

Life The Monge requested and received the priory of Montaudon from the abbot of Aurillac. Montaudon may be identified with Montauban or perhaps with a Mons Odonis southeast of Clermont. He is said to have "enriched [the priory] and improved it" before "ending his days" there. In it he insults his contemporaries, such as Arnaut Daniel, Arnaut de Maruelh, Folquet de Marselha, Gaucelm Faidit, Guilhem Ademar, Guillem de Saint Didier, Peire Vidal, Peirol, Raimon Jordan, and Raimon de Miraval. Only one melody by the Monge himself—for a entitled —survives.

The poem was appended to a set of four by the Monge in the 13th century, but it is probably a work of Jausbert de Puycibot.