FAIDIT, GAUCELM (d. c. 122o), French troubadour, was born at Uzerche. He married Guillelma Monja, and on account of his dissolute life fell into great need from which he was re lieved by Richard, Coeur de Lion. His later passion for Marie de Ventadour, who persuaded him to go on the crusade, formed the subject of many of his love poems. Besides these, the chief of which is Le Triomphe de l'Atuour, imitated by Petrarch, Gau celm's most important works are the poem on the death of Rich ard and L'Heresie des Pretres, a satire on the corruptions of the church.
See R. Meyer, Das Leben des Trobadors Gaucelm Faidit (Heidel berg, 1876), and F. Diez, Leben and Werke der Troubadours (end ed., Leipzig, 1883).