N'At de Mons was a

troubadour A troubadour (, ; ) 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 equivalent is usually called a ''trobairitz''. The tr ...

of the latter half of the thirteenth century. He was from

Mons Mons commonly refers to: * Mons, Belgium, a city in Belgium * Mons pubis (mons Venus or mons veneris), in mammalian anatomy, the adipose tissue lying above the pubic bone * Mons (planetary nomenclature), a sizable extraterrestrial mountain * Batt ...

, near

Toulouse Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...

. Kings

James I of Aragon James I the Conqueror ( Catalan/Valencian: ''Jaume I or Jaume el Conqueridor''; Aragonese: ''Chaime I'' ''o Conqueridor''; ; 2 February 1208 – 27 July 1276) was King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona, and Lord of Montpellier from 1213 to 1 ...

(1213–76)According to some authors, it was actually James' son Peter III (1276–87). At addresses him as "noble rei aragones" (noble Aragonese king) and "bo seignor d'Arago" (good lord of Aragon) in his letters, but does not name him. and

Alfonso X of Castile Alfonso X (also known as the Wise, ; 23 November 1221 – 4 April 1284) was King of Castile, Kingdom of León, León and Kingdom of Galicia, Galicia from 1 June 1252 until his death in 1284. During the April 1257 Imperial election, election of 1 ...

(1252–84) acted as his patrons and he addressed "La valors es grans e l'onors", 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 ...

'' on the rights of kings, to James. At is also credited as the author of a '' cobla esparsa'' (single stanza), "Reys rix romieus mas man milhors". At's longest surviving work is "Sitot non es enquistz", an ''

ensenhamen An (, or ) was an Old Occitan didactic (often Lyric poem, lyric) poem associated with the troubadours. As a genre of Occitan literature, its limits have been open to debate since it was first defined in the 19th century. The word has many varia ...

'' comprising five letters, including three to James and one to Alfonso. The latter ("Al bo rei de Castela") can be dated to between 1266, when Alfonso conquered the

Kingdom of Murcia After roughly two decades as a protectorate of the Crown of Castile, the territory of the Taifa of Murcia became the Kingdom of Murcia (, a territorial jurisdiction of the Crown of Castile) in the wake of its Conquest of Murcia (1265–66), conq ...

, and 1275, when he renounced his imperial candidacy.

Sources

*Chaytor, H. J. (1912)
''The Troubadours''.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. * Jeanroy, Alfred (1934). ''La poésie lyrique des troubadours''. Toulouse: Privat. *Snow, Joseph T. (1995). "The Iberian Peninsula." ''A Handbook of the Troubadours'' edd. F. R. P. Akehurst and Judith M. Davis. Berkeley: University of California Press. . *Cigni, F. (2001). "Il trovatore N'At de Mons di Tolosa." ''Studi Mediolatini e Volgari'', XLVII, 251–273. *Cigni, F. (2012). ''Il trovatore N'At de Mons: Edizione critica''. Pisa: Pacini.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:At De Mons 13th-century French troubadours Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown People from Haute-Garonne