# At de Mons

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N''''At de Mons'''<ref>"N'" is a contraction of [Occitan](/source/Occitan_language) ''en'', meaning "[sir](/source/sir)". He is sometimes called "Nat de Mons" because of a confusion regarding this title.</ref> was a [troubadour](/source/troubadour) of the latter half of the thirteenth century. He was from [Mons](/source/Mons%2C_Haute-Garonne), near [Toulouse](/source/Toulouse). Kings [James I of Aragon](/source/James_I_of_Aragon) (1213–76)<ref>According to some authors, it was actually James' son [Peter III](/source/Peter_III_of_Aragon) (1276–87). At addresses him as "noble rei aragones" (noble Aragonese king) and "bo seignor d'Arago" (good lord of Aragon) in his letters, but does not name him.</ref> and [Alfonso X of Castile](/source/Alfonso_X_of_Castile) (1252–84) acted as his patrons and he addressed "La valors es grans e l'onors", a ''[sirventes](/source/sirventes)'' on the rights of kings, to James. At is also credited as the author of a ''[cobla esparsa](/source/cobla_esparsa)'' (single stanza), "Reys rix romieus mas man milhors".

At's longest surviving work is "Sitot non es enquistz", an ''[ensenhamen](/source/ensenhamen)'' comprising five letters, including three to James and one to Alfonso. The latter ("Al bo rei de Castela") can be dated to between 1266, when Alfonso conquered the [Kingdom of Murcia](/source/Kingdom_of_Murcia), and 1275, when he renounced his [imperial candidacy](/source/King_of_the_Romans).

==Sources==
*Chaytor, H. J. (1912). [http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Troubadours.html ''The Troubadours''.] Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
*[Jeanroy, Alfred](/source/Alfred_Jeanroy) (1934). ''La poésie lyrique des troubadours''. Toulouse: Privat.
*Snow, Joseph T. (1995). "The Iberian Peninsula." ''A Handbook of the Troubadours'' edd. F. R. P. Akehurst and Judith M. Davis. Berkeley: University of California Press. <small>{{ISBN|0-520-07976-0}}.</small>
*Cigni, F. (2001). "Il trovatore N'At de Mons di Tolosa." ''Studi Mediolatini e Volgari'', '''XLVII''', 251&ndash;273.
*Cigni, F. (2012). ''Il trovatore N'At de Mons: Edizione critica''. Pisa: Pacini.

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