Pero de Armea
Jogral medieval

Biographical Note:

Galician minstrel, certainly natural of the village of Armea, next to Betanzos, in north Galicia, active around the mid-13th century. It’s possible that his early activity occurred in Galicia, eventually in the circle of magnate Dom Rodrigo Gomes de Trava, as Resende de Oliveira (recovering López Ferreiro) mentions1. But he, surely, would also have accompanied the Castillian court of Alfonso X (prince or king), as can be inferred from the toponymic references in his songs.

References

1 Oliveira, António Resende de (1994), Depois do espectáculo trovadoresco. A estrutura dos cancioneiros peninsulares e as recolhas dos séculos XIII e XIV, Lisboa, Edições Colibri, p. 411.