Pero Rodrigues de Palmeira [1] ( c. 1160 – after 1225) was a Portuguese troubadour. [2] He belonged to the first generation of lyric poets in Galician-Portuguese. [3] All of his works are lost. He is listed as the author of two songs in the index of the 16th-century Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional. This index was made by Angelo Colocci, but the pages where his songs would be are missing. [2]
Pero's family originated in Palmeira. He was born around 1160 to Rui Nunes de Asturias and Elvira Gonçalves de Palmeira. His brother, Martinho Rodrigues, became the bishop of Porto ( r. 1191–1235). Between 1180 and 1183, Pero served as the royal lieutenant in command of Trancoso and Viseu. Thereafter, he cannot be traced in Portuguese documents until 1225, when he made out a document for the monastery of Landim in the presence of his brother. The date of his death is unknown. [2] According to the Livro de Linhagens of Pedro de Barcelos, he "died of love" (morreu de amor) [2] for María Páes, the daughter of Pelayo Curvo. [4]
References
- ^ Spanish: Pedro Rodríguez de Palmeira.
- ^ a b c d Graça Videira Lopes, Manuel Pedro Ferreira, et al., Cantigas Medievais Galego Portuguesas (Instituto de Estudos Medievais, 2011–), s.v. "Pero Rodrigues de Palmeira". Retrieved 20 October 2023.
- ^ Santiago Gutiérrez García, "Clerics, Troubadours and Damsels: Galician Literature and Written Culture during the Middle Ages", in Helena Miguélez-Carballeira (ed.), A Companion to Galician Culture (Tamesis, 2014), pp. 13–34 , at 15.
- ^ Manuel Fernández Rodríguez, Toronium: Aproximación a la Historia de una Tierra Medieval: Galicia y Portugal en la Edad Media (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2004), p. 101.