Tibors de Sarenom

Tibors de Sarenom (French Tiburge; c. 1130 – aft. 1198) is the earliest attestable trobairitz, active during the classical period of medieval Occitan literature at the height of the popularity of the troubadours.

Biography

Tibors is one of eight trobairitz with vidas, short Occitan biographies, often more hypothetical than factual. Research into Tibors' the poet's identification with an independently recorded individual is hampered by the popularity of her name in Occitania during the period of her life.

Tibors was the daughter of Guilhem d'Omelas and Tibors d'Aurenga, who brought her husband the castle of Sarenom, probably Sérignan-du-Comtat in Provence or perhaps Sérignan in the Roussillon. Tibors' first husband, had already died. She had no recorded children by him, but with Bertrand she had three sons: Uc, father of Barral of Marseille; Bertran, father of Raimon; and Guilhem, also a troubadour.

Tibors is said to have died soon after her husband (1180) in 1181 or 1182, but a document of her son Uc dated 13 August 1198 refers to "the advice of his mother Tibors".

Poetry Of Tibors' work only a single stanza of a canso with its attached vida and razo has survived. Nonetheless, she is mentioned in an anonymous ballad dated to between 1220 and 1245, where she acts as the judge of a game of poetry. Her only work goes like this: Bels dous amics, ben vos posc en ver dir que anc non fo qu'ieu estes ses desir pos vos conven que.us tene per fin aman; ni anc no fo qu'ieu non agues talan, bels dous amics, qu'ieu soven no.us vezes; ni anc no fo sazons que m'en pentis, ni anc no fo, se vos n'anes iratz, qu'ieu agues joi tro que fosetz tornatz; ni [anc]. . .Sweet handsome friend, I can tell you truly that I've never been without desire since it pleased you that I have you as my courtly lover; nor did a time ever arrive, sweet handsome friend, when I didn't want to see you often; nor did I ever feel regret, nor did it ever come to pass, if you went off angry, that I felt joy until you had come back; nor [ever]. . .