Blacasset, Blacassetz, Blacssetz, or Blachessetz (

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 ...

1233–1242Aubrey, 23.) was a

Provençal Provençal may refer to: *Of Provence, a region of France * Provençal dialect, a dialect of the Occitan language, spoken in the southeast of France *''Provençal'', meaning the whole Occitan language *Franco-Provençal language, a distinct Roman ...

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 '' trobai ...

of the noble family of the

Blacas The House of Blacas is the name of two old French houses which successively owned the Lordship of Aups with its castle in Provence (whose name is still spelled in the ancient form ''Aulps'' in their surname). Blacas d'Aulps family The first Blacas ...

, lords of Aulps, in the Empire. He was probably a son of the troubadour Blacatz, as his '' vida'' alleges, though this has come into doubt.Egan, 23. He was also distantly related to Charles I of Naples and Raymond Berengar IV of Provence. According to his ''vida'', he was like his father in merit, good deeds, and munificence, and also reputed to be a good lover. "Blacasset" is a diminutive of his father's name ( la, Blacacius). A document of 1238 (two years after his father's death) mentions three sons of the elder Blacatz, two of which were named Blacacius. Blacasset was not a professional troubadour, but, like his father, an amateur. Eleven of his works survive, three '' sirventes'', four ''

cansos The ''canso'' or ''canson'' or ''canzo'' () was a song style used by the troubadours. It was, by far, the most common genre used, especially by early troubadours, and only in the second half of the 13th century was its dominance challenged by ...

'', and four '' coblas'', including one single-stanza ''canso'' with a melody in

F major F major (or the key of F) is a major scale based on F, with the pitches F, G, A, B, C, D, and E. Its key signature has one flat. Its relative minor is D minor and its parallel minor is F minor. The F major scale is: : F major is ...

, '. This song was appended to a manuscript of the ''chansonnier du roi'' of

Theobald I of Navarre Theobald I (french: Thibaut, es, Teobaldo; 30 May 1201 – 8 July 1253), also called the Troubadour and the Posthumous, was Count of Champagne (as Theobald IV) from birth and King of Navarre from 1234. He initiated the Barons' Crusade, was famou ...

in the early fourteenth-century.Aubrey, 232. This is known as troubadour manuscript W or

trouvère ''Trouvère'' (, ), sometimes spelled ''trouveur'' (, ), is the Northern French ('' langue d'oïl'') form of the '' langue d'oc'' (Occitan) word ''trobador'', the precursor of the modern French word ''troubadour''. ''Trouvère'' refers to poet ...

manuscript M. Among his other works are: *', a '' tenso'' with Guilhem de Montanhagol in the '' trobar clus'' style about a lady, Guiza (Gauzeranda) de Lunel *', a ''sirventes'' he wrote for the ''conte de Proensa'' (count of Provence)Bertoni, 128. Found in the chansonnier of

Bernart Amoros Bernart de Ventadorn (also Bernard de Ventadour or Bernat del Ventadorn; – ) was a French poet-composer troubadour of the classical age of troubadour poetry. Generally regarded as the most important troubadour in both poetry and music, his 1 ...

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Sources

*Aubrey, Elizabeth. ''The Music of the Troubadours''. Indiana University Press, 1996. . *Bertoni, G. "Il complemento del conzoniere provenzale di Bernart Amoros." ''Giornale storico della letteratura italiana'', 34 (1899) pp. 118–140. *Egan, Margarita, ed. and trans. ''The Vidas of the Troubadours''. New York: Garland, 1984. .

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Blacasset 1242 deaths 13th-century French troubadours Year of birth unknown People from Var (department)