Background
Giraut was born to a lower-class family in the Limousin, probably in Bourney, near Excideuil in modern-day France.
Giraut was born to a lower-class family in the Limousin, probably in Bourney, near Excideuil in modern-day France.
He is credited with the formalisation, if not the invention, of the "light" style, or trobar leu. Guiraut might have accompanied Richard I of England and Aimar V of Limoges on the Third Crusade and stayed a while with the "good prince of Antioch", Bohemond III. He certainly made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but perhaps before the Crusade.
