Events

• Guilhem Figueira
  Guilhem Figueira
  Guillem or Guilhem Figueira or Figera was a Languedocian jongleur and troubadour from Toulouse active at the court of the Emperor Frederick II in the 1230s. He was a close associate of both Aimery de Pégulhan and Guillem Augier Novella...
  
   wrote the sirventes contra Roma (actually entitled D'un sirventes far), attacking the Papacy while he was in Toulouse
  Toulouse
  Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
  
   besieged by the Albigensian Crusade
  Albigensian Crusade
  The Albigensian Crusade or Cathar Crusade was a 20-year military campaign initiated by the Catholic Church to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc...
  
  
• Joan d'Aubusson
  Joan d'Aubusson
  Joan d'Aubusson or d'Albusson , known as Johan or Johanet to Occitan contemporaries , was an Auvergnat troubadour and a Ghibelline. Only three of his works survive: two tensos and a cobla.Joan was often present at the court of the viscount Peter of Aubusson and his wife Margaret...
  
  , a Ghibelline at the court of Emperor Frederick II, praises the bond between the emperor and Boniface II of Montferrat in verse.