Joan d'Aubusson

1229), known as Johan or Johanet to Occitan contemporaries (Giovanni in Italian), was an Limousin troubadour[1] and a Ghibelline.

Joan was often present at the court of the viscount Peter of Aubusson and his wife Margaret.

Along with Terrisio d'Atina, he described Frederick as the lord of the four elements—air, earth, fire, and water—which he could thus command in his campaigns against the enemies of the Holy Roman Empire.

The only certain date in Joan's life is 1229, for he mentions the strengthening of the bond between Boniface II of Montferrat and the emperor in that year.

Joan wrote a famous tenso with Sordello da Goito, "Digatz mi s'es vers zo c'om brui" ("Tell me if you are truly what you proclaim"), in which he informs us that the Italian troubadour was forced to be a jongleur at the court of Azzo VII of Este before becoming a troubadour in Provence.