Mem Vasques de Folhente Nationality: Portuguesa Biographical Note:
Troubadour, probably portuguese, and maybe originating from a gentry lineage based in Ardegão, in the county of Ponte de Lima (in the place of Folhente). The lineage is not unknown to the Books of Lineages, where one Rui Peres de Folhente appears, whose father, according to the “Livro do Deão”, would be called Pero Vasques Pinguelo. Resende de Oliveira suggests1, then, that taking the patronymic into account, Mem Vasques could possibly be brother to this Pero Vasques (already using the Folhentes family name, as happens in the next generation). 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. |
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