Bernart de Bondeills (or Bondeilhs) was a 13th-century Occitan troubadour known from only one composition, the canso Tot aissi·m pren com fai als Assesis, found in chansonnier M, BnF Paris, f.f.
[1] Although originally from the Auvergne,[2] he worked at the court of the north Italian nobleman Ottone del Carretto, a prolific patron of troubadours.
[4] This is in contrast to the use of the same trope in Aimeric de Peguilhan, written about the same time, who considers himself an Assassin in devotion to his lady.
The first troubadours to use the name, like Bernart and Aimeric, associate the term primarily with fanatical devotion and not political murder.
[5] In the tornada, Bernart sends his poem "to the brave marquis of Carretto" (al pro marqes del Carret) in a place called Point, probably Ponti, not far from Alessandria.