Ricau de Tarascon

He served Count Raymond Berengar V of Provence as an administrator.

His vida portrays him as a good "servant" of ladies.

"Ab tan de sen cum Deus m'a dat", a canso, is accepted by scholars to be his and is generally ascribed to him in the chansonniers, although it is also ascribed to Gui de Cavalhon and Aimeric de Peguillan.

Ricau knew Gui personally, since together they composed a tenso (debate poem), "Cabrit, al mieu vejaire", in which Gui is called "Cabrit".

Its poetic structure is borrowed from a song of Perdigon's that was also reused by Joan Esteve.