Raimon de Castelnou

[1] It was transmitted independently of his lyric poetry and is found in two manuscripts: British Museum, Harley 7403 and Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashburnham 40b.

[2] In it, Raimon describes himself as a poor knight who gave up "worthless singing" under the influence of some good clergymen.

It may be a contrafactum by Raimon of an original by Peire, De selhs qu'avets el sirventes dich mal.

Beltrán proposes that Raimon composed it around 1274–1275, when Alfonso X of Castile traveled to Beaucaire to meet Pope Gregory X, who dissuaded him from pursuing his claim on the Holy Roman Empire.

From the authenticity of this sirventes, it follows that Raimon's patrons were Counts Hugh IV and Henry II of Rodez.

The large decorated or historiated initial from the start of Raimon's poems in chansonnier C has been cut out. On the right is the lesser decorated initial of the poem De servir a bon senhor .