Woe betide the unlucky noble who was ridiculed or denounced by a Troubadour! In the first instance he might feel assured that before long every court and castle in Southern Europe would be laughing at him, and in the second, he might consider himself fortunate if he was not compelled to turn out and defend his life and property against the steel-clad paladins of a hostile neighbour, as had the Lord of Rossilho when Alfonso of Aragon laid waste his territories, as vengeance for the death of the Troubadour Guillem de Cabestanh.
To the Troubadours we owe the existence of various art-forms common to music and poetry, such as the ” Pastorela,” or ” Pastorela ” the shepherd’s song, whence the modern Pastoral or Pastorale; the “Alba”
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