Peire de Maensac

[1] According to Peire's vida the brothers agreed that one of them would "have the castle" (i.e. inherit) and the other would be the "inventor" (i.e. troubadour).

He wrote poems dedicated to the (unnamed) wife of Bernart de Tierci.

He fled with her to the castle of Dalf d'Alvernha, but her husband waged a "great war" to bring her back.

He wrote mostly cansos of courtly love with "pleasing melodies", but also coblas de solatz.

It could mean "good entertaining couplets" (bon couplets divertissants) according to Boutière-Schutz, the first of the vida's editors, but it could also mean simply tensos, as preferred by Egan, the vida's first English editor.