High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Elias Cairel (or Cayrel; fl. 1204-1222) was a troubadour of international fame. Born in Sarlat in the P rigord, he first travelled with the Fourth Crusade and settled down in the Kingdom of Thessalonica at the court of Boniface of Montferrat (1204-1208/10) before moving back to Western Europe, where he sojourned in both Spain (at the court of Alfonso IX, 1210-11) and Lombardy (1219-1222/24). He wrote fourteen...