Tremoleta was a Catalan

Catalan people

The Catalans or Catalonians are the people from, or with origins in, Catalonia that form a historical nationality in Spain. The inhabitants of the adjacent portion of southern France are sometimes included in this definition...

 troubadour

Troubadour

A troubadour was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages . Since the word "troubadour" is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a trobairitz....

 mentioned by the Monge de Montaudon

Monge de Montaudon

The Monge de Montaudon , born Pèire de Vic, was a nobleman, monk, and troubadour from the Auvergne, born at the castle of Vic-sur-Cère near Aurillac, where he became a Benedictine monk around 1180...

 in his satire of contemporary troubadours (c.1195). No works attributed to him survive, but many scholars have suggested identifying him with one of the known troubadours. The Monge provides the following information:

E.N Tremoleta.l catalas que fai sonez levez e plas, e sos chantars es de nien; e tenh son cap con fai auras: ben a trent'ans que for'albas si no fos pel negre ongnimen.

And Lord Tremoleta the Catalan who composes light, plain melodies, and whose singing is nothing; and whose head is dyed like the fools': for a good thirty years he's been white-haired except for that black ointment.

It is evident that Tremoleta was an old man when the Monge mocked him. If so, his composing career probably belongs to the mid-twelfth century. Manuel Milà i Fontanals

Manuel Milà i Fontanals

Manuel Milà i Fontanals was a Catalan scholar. He was born at Vilafranca del Penedès, near Barcelona, and was educated first in Barcelona, and afterwards at the University of Cervera....

, reading the first line as entre Moleta.l catalas, proposed that Tremoleta was the Mola who exchanged coblas

Cobla (Occitan literary term)

A cobla is a stanza in Occitan lyric poetry, the art form of the troubadours. Though not usually standalone work in itself, in many instances a cobla or two is all that survives of what was once a complete poem. Each cobla of a song was usually played to the same melody, but a few songs were...

in a tenso

Tenso

A tenso is a style of Occitan song favoured by the troubadours. It takes the form of a debate in which each voice defends a position on a topic relating to love or ethics. Closely related genres include the partimen and the cobla exchange...

with Guilhem Raimon. In the eighteenth century, Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni

Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni

Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni was an Italian critic and poet. Crescimbeni was born in Macerata, which was then part of the Papal States....

, assuming Catala to be his surname, identified Tremoleta with Arnaut Catalan

Arnaut Catalan

Arnaut Catalan was a troubadour active in the Languedoc, Catalonia, and Castile. He left behind five cansos, three tensos, and one religious song....

. Martí de Riquer i Morera

Martí de Riquer i Morera

Martí de Riquer i Morera , 8th Count of Casa Dávalos and Grandee of Spain, PhD, is a Spanish Catalan Romance linguist, a recognised international authority in the field...

 rejects all these.

There is an obscene song, U fotaires que no fo amoros with a rubric

Rubric

A rubric is a word or section of text which is traditionally written or printed in red ink to highlight it. The word derives from the , meaning red ochre or red chalk, and originates in Medieval illuminated manuscripts from the 13th century or earlier...

 Giulio Bertoni read as t'bolet and identified as referring to Tremoleta, but Alfred Jeanroy

Alfred Jeanroy

Alfred Jeanroy was a French linguist.Jeanroy was born at Mangiennes, Meuse, Lorraine. He was a leading scholar studying troubadour poetry, publishing over 600 works. He established an influential view of the second generation of troubadours divided into two camps: “idealists” and “realists”...

reads it as "Tribolet".