Monge de Montaudon

In this way he greatly improved the state of his priorate and, upon his request, was released from his monastic vocation by his abbot to follow Alfonso II of Aragon, whose vassal the viscount of Carlat and lord of Vic was.

[1] Internal evidence in his poems suggests wide wanderings, to Périgord, Languedoc, and Catalonia, and the patronage of Dalfi d'Alvernha and Maria de Ventadorn.

[1] Among the Monge's other works, Mout me platz deportz e gaieza and Be m'enueia, s'o auzes dire have been translated into English as "What I Like" and "What I Don't Like" respectively.

[2] Nonetheless, this lone piece of work is characterised by phrase variation and motivic transformation, with an unexpected ending.

[8] The poem S'eu vos voill tan gen lauzar was appended to a set of four by the Monge in the 13th century, but it is probably a work of Jausbert de Puycibot.

"Lo monges de Montaudon" from a 13th-century chansonnier now in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France .
The monk receiving a sparrow hawk as a prize for his poetry. The bird is white and perched on his arm.