Career

Guilhem Rainol was probably the Guilelmus Ranoli who witnessed a document of Alfonso II of Provence in 1209. In the north Italian troubadour manuscript D (1254, now in the Biblioteca Estense, Modena), the poem A tornar m'er enquer al primer us is assigned to Guillems Rauols, probably an orthographic error for Guilhem Rainol. Elsewhere this same work is ascribed to Tomier and Palaizi, Bertran de Born, or Bertran lo Filhs.

Little to nothing is known of Guilhem's life. In a tenso with Guilhem Magret, his interlocutor alludes to his having left the religious life. Guilhem's own works hint at a religious inclination.

In the sirventes L'aissatz m'era de chantar he attacks the rich, whom he portrays as humbled by the clerics.