Planh

The most famous planh of all, however, Gaucelm Faidit's lament on the death of King Richard the Lionheart in 1199, was set to original music.

[1] Alfred Jeanroy considered that the common denunciation of the evils of the present age was a feature that distinguished the planh from the planctus.

[5] In the conventions of the genre, the subject's death is announced by the simple words es mortz ("is dead").

By the 13th century, the placement of these words within the poem was fixed: it occurred in the seventh or eighth line of the first stanza.

The planh was regarded by contemporaries as a distinct genre and is mentioned in the Doctrina de compondre dictatz (1290s) and the Leys d'amors (1341).