1/2 This lyrical call to non-monogamy was written by William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitou and btw. the grandfather of famous Eleanore of Aquitaine.
Next to working politics and going on crusade, he was also a poet. Only a handfull of his poems survived.

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