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songs according to his supposed relationship with Adelaide, the wife of Lord Barral. 63 These
lines also describe the characteristic stance that Folquet, like many other troubadours, assumes as
the lover–he never receives a reward from Love and so frequently complains about Love in his
songs.
“He was so sad about his lady and the barons who were dead that he abandoned the world
and went to the Cistercians with his wife and two sons that he had.” 64 Whether he renounced the
world because of his sadness over the deaths of his friends or some other reason, Folquet did
renounce the world and become a Cistercian monk sometime around 1195. This is the only
mention of his family in the vida, and we have no other information about his wife. Schulman
speculates that Folquet’s later interest in providing adequate facilities for women who sought the
religious life may have stemmed from his difficulties in finding a religious house to accept his
wife. 65 His two sons, Peire and Anfos, are listed as monks in 1210 in the Cistercian monastery
Grandselve near Toulouse. 66
“And he was made abbot of a rich abbey in Provence called Torondet.” 67 The vida is
ambiguous on whether he entered Torondet and later became its abbot or whether he entered a
different monastery, then became abbot of Torondet. Folquet’s friend, John of Garland, later
63 Pratsch, Folquet von Marseille. These lines in conjunction with the razos are also the
source for Zingarelli’s view of Folquet’s life, La Personalita storica.
64 “don el per tristeza de sa dona e dels baros qe ero mortz abandonec lo mon. e rendet se
en lor de Sistel ab sa molher et ab dos fils que avia.”
65 Shulman, “Folco,” 97-100.
66 Shulman, “Folco,” 46.
67 “E son fatz abas d’una rica abadia q’es en Proensa qe a nom lo Torondet.”
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