Walther von Mezze

Walther von Mezze was German lyric poet in the Minnesang tradition, probably active in the first half of the 13th century.

[1] It cannot be proved that he was related to the lords of Metze who held lands in southern Tyrol and the Rhenish Palatinate, since his given name is never attested among them in the 13th century.

[2][3] His portrait is a notable example of the tendency by the later 13th century to cover all of a knight's accoutrements in his coat of arms.

[1] Nevertheless, he is one of the more individual of Vogelweide's followers and Carl von Kraus reckoned his poems among the best of that generation.

Mīn arzāt ist ir rōter munt und ein wort daz si kan. spræche si daz, ich waer gesunt und stolzer danne ie man.