Ademar Jordan (

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

1198–1212) was a

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and

troubadour A troubadour (, ; oc, trobador ) was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350). Since the word ''troubadour'' is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a ''trobairit ...

from Saint-Antonin in the

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. He was possibly a

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Raimon Jordan Raimon Jordan (fl. c. 1178–1195)Boase, 823. was a Toulousain troubadour and the viscount of Saint-Antonin in the Rouergue near the boundary with Quercy. His poetry was in Old Occitan. There is a '' vida'' of Jordan which exists in sever ...

. Ademar apparently participated in the war against the

Albigensian Crusade The Albigensian Crusade or the Cathar Crusade (; 1209–1229) was a military and ideological campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc, southern France. The Crusade was prosecuted primarily by the French crown ...

, for he was captured by

Simon de Montfort Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester ( – 4 August 1265), later sometimes referred to as Simon V de Montfort to distinguish him from his namesake relatives, was a nobleman of French origin and a member of the English peerage, who led the ...

on 6 May 1212 and is not heard from again. On the occasion of his capture he composed a ''

sirventes The ''sirventes'' or ''serventes'' (), sometimes translated as "service song", was a genre of Old Occitan lyric poetry practiced by the troubadours. The name comes from ''sirvent'' ('serviceman'), from whose perspective the song is allegedly wr ...

'' in imitation of

Bertran de Born Bertran de Born (; 1140s – by 1215) was a baron from the Limousin in France, and one of the major Occitan troubadours of the 12th-13th century. He composed love songs (cansos) but was better known for his political songs (sirventes). He wa ...

, '. His only other extant song is ', a ''

cobla esparsa A ''cobla esparsa'' ( literally meaning "scattered stanza") in Old Occitan is the name used for a single-stanza poem in troubadour poetry. They constitute about 15% of the troubadour output, and they are the dominant form among late (after 1220) au ...

'' or ''cobla de circonstance''. Ademar may also have participated in one of the

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(possibly the Fourth or the ''

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'').Schulze-Busacker, 3 n8.

Notes

Sources

*Brunel, Clovis (1926). "Les troubadours Ademar Jordan et Uc Brunenc," ''Romania'', 52, p. 506. * Jeanroy, Alfred (1934). ''La poésie lyrique des troubadours''. Toulouse: Privat. *Schulze-Busacker, Elisabeth (1987). "French Conceptions of Foreigners and Foreign Languages in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries," ''Romance Philology'', 41:1 (Aug.) pp. 24–47.

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