# Johan Blanch

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**Johan Blanch** (ʒuˈam ˈblaŋ, dʒuˈam ˈblaɲtʃ; modern [Catalan](/source/Catalan_language) spelling: *Joan Blanc*) was an [Occitan](/source/Old_Occitan) [troubadour](/source/Troubadour) who composed a *[canso](/source/Canso_(song))* for a *[joc floral](/source/Floral_Games)* at the [Consistori del Gay Saber](/source/Consistori_del_Gay_Saber). According to the [rubric](/source/Rubric) of the fourteenth-century [chansonnier](/source/Chansonnier) that preserves it, he was a [Catalan](/source/Catalan_people) whose poem "won the violet" (*gazaynet la violeta*), top prize. His *canso* is elegant and pleading.

His dates are entirely unknown, as is the year he won the violet, though [Jaume Massó i Torrents](/source/Jaume_Mass%C3%B3_i_Torrents) hypothesised 1360.

## References

- [Jeanroy, Alfred](/source/Alfred_Jeanroy) (1940). "Poésies provençales inédites du XIVe siècle d'après le manuscrit de Barcelone". *Annales du Midi*, **52**:241–279.
- [Riquer i Morera, Martí de](/source/Mart%C3%AD_de_Riquer_i_Morera) (1964). *Història de la Literatura Catalana*, vol. 1. Barcelona: Edicions Ariel.

## External links

- [Ben hay razo quez yeu mos xans espanda](http://www.rialc.unina.it/18.1.htm), ed. by Jeanroy
- [Johan Blanch, catala, gazaynet la violeta per aquesta canso. «Ben hay razo quez ieu mos xans espanda».](http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/78036287651236130932457/ima0242.htm) Folio 121v from the [Cançoner Gil](/source/Can%C3%A7oner_Gil) showing the *canso* with which Blanch won the violet at Toulouse. Presented by the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.

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