Medieval troubadour
Bibliographic notes
Galician troubadour, active in the second quarter of the 13th century. The attributive item in his cantigas de amigo tell us that he was a cleric, and the one in his love songs that he was natural of Santiago de Compostela. He seems to have frequented the court of Alfonso X, a monarch that would have him appointed chaplain. We have, moreover, his will, wrought in Salamanca and dated 1273. However, if the Rui Fernandes located by Ron Fernandez, and who was, in 1284, a monk of the monastery of S. Paio de Altealtares in Santiago, is our author, then he may have passed away many years after the aforementioned will. In his recent ediction of Rui Fernandes' work, Arias Freixedo2 reviews all the data concerning his life, namely his stay in Salamanca.Bibliographic references
1
Ron Fernández, Xavier
(2005),
“Carolina Michaelis e os trobadores representados no Cancioneiro da Ajuda”, in Carolina Michaelis e o Cancioneira da Ajuda hoxe,
Santiago de Compostela, Xunta de Galicia
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2
Arias Freixedo, Xosé Bieito
(2010),
As cantigas de Roi Fernandíz, clérigo de Santiago,
Universidade de Vigo
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