Vasco Peres Pardal

Bibliographic notes

Troubadour, possibly Portuguese, about whom it hasn’t been possible, until now, to obtain any documental information. According to Resende de Oliveira, a Pardal family is documented in Coimbra in the early and mid-13th century, a family that seems to have enjoyed some prestige in the city. One of its members, Fernão Soares Pardal, was named alvazil (judje) in 1242 (the year of his death, therefore never occupying the position) while another, Estêvão Fernandes Pardal, connected with the See clergy, is documented in 1281. Although the troubadour may possibly belong to this family, it’s impossible at this point to be sure.
In fact, it is in his compositions that we may gather the strongest data regarding his biography, that is, that the troubadour surely was in Castile, around the mid or second half of the 13th century. His relations to the alphonsine troubadours (the poetical exchange with Pedro Amigo de Sevilha, for example) and the satires he addresses to characters also satirized in that circle, like Maria Balteira or D. Ansur, prove this space and time of his chronology. But nothing more is known about his path.