Career
He travelled widely in France, Spain, and Hungary. His known patrons include Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany and Dalfi d"Alvernha. He was at one time in Poitiers at the court of Richard I of England, for whose death he wrote a famous planh (lament) in 1199.
lieutenant is possible, but controversial, that Gaucelm took part in the Third Crusade from 1189–1191.
lieutenant seems clear that in 1202 he set out on the Fourth Crusade, as did his current patron, Boniface of Montferrat. After 1202 there is no further historical trace of him.
About seventy of Gaucelm"s poems and fourteen of his melodies survive. Six poems are addressed to Boniface of Montferrat, and twelve to Maria de Ventadorn.
Several of his poems are accompanied in the manuscripts by detailed explanations (razós), usually concerning love affairs and rivalries that allegedly inspired the poems.