Daude de Pradas

He lived to an old age and left behind seventeen to nineteen cansos, including twelve on courtly love, three about sexual conquest, one tenso, one planh (on the death of Uc Brunenc), and a religious song.

[3] A canon and magister of the name Deodatus de Pradas or Pratis appears in many documents from Rodez in the same time period.

[2] According to his vida, Daude was reputed as a "wise man in letters, with natural wit and invention", but because he was not inspired by love, his songs were not popular and consequently not sung.

[3] Daude also possessed a keen knowledge of raptors,[4] and wrote a treatise on falconry entitled Auzels Cassadors.

[1] Daude, in his love songs, expresses amor for a lady of higher rank in hope that Merces (mercy) will intercede for him.

Daude in a decorated initial in chansonnier A
A picture of Daude accompanies his vida in the manuscript. He is portrayed with a tonsure.