Peirol

1188 – 1222

or Peiròl (born c. 1160, fl. 1188–1222/1225, died in the 1220s) was an Auvergnat who wrote mostly cansos of courtly love in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Thirty-four surviving poems written in have been attributed to him; of these, seventeen (sixteen of them love songs) have surviving melodies. He is sometimes called Peirol d'Auvergne or Peiròl d'Auvèrnha, and erroneously Pierol.