About Uc de la Bacalaria
Uc de la Bacalaria was a French troubadour and composer.
Uc de la Bacalaria (fl. 1206 ) was a Limousin troubadour from La Bachellerie near Uzerche, the home town of Gaucelm Faidit. According to his vida, he was a jongleur who travelled infrequently and was hardly known. He composed cansos, tensos, one alba, and one descort. Six songs are surviving: one canso, one alba, and four tensos (three partimens and one torneyamen). According to the vida, he was courtly, capable, and learned.
Uc participated in a three-way torneyamen with Savaric de Malleo and Gaucelm Faidit. Savaric posed the dilemma: if a lady with three suitors gazes into the eyes of one, squeezes the hand of the other, and nudges the foot of the third, to whom did she show the truest affection?
Uc's only canso was .
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Who was Uc de la Bacalaria?
French troubadour
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Uc de la Bacalaria was a troubadour and composer.
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Uc de la Bacalaria was French.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Uc de la Bacalaria. https://biography.guide/uc-de-la-bacalaria/
MLA: "Uc de la Bacalaria." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/uc-de-la-bacalaria/.
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