Peire Guillem de Tolosa

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Peire Guillem (or Guilhem) de Tolosa was a thirteenth-century troubadour from Toulouse. Only one sirventes he wrote ("En Sordel, que us es semblan"), a tenso with the contemporary Italian poet Sordello, survives.

According to his vida he was a courtly man who loved high society. The author of the vida also expresses admiration for his couplets but bewails the excessive number he composed, though so few of his works survive to this day. He was also said to have composed sirventes joglarescs, or sirventes in the manner of joglars, in order to criticise "the barons" (presumably the high noblesse). He also wrote a work criticising the prolific trouvère Theobald I of Navarre.

According to his vida he entered the "Order of Spaza", probably the "Order of the Sword", meaning either the Order of Sanitago or the Order of the Faith and Peace.