Azalais d'Altier

Azalais or Azalaïs d'Altier was an early-13th-century trobairitz.{{Cite book |last1=Bruckner |first1=Matilda Tomaryn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u2xfJTjQkpMC&dq=Azalais+d%27altier&pg=PA132 |title=Songs of the Women Troubadours |last2=Shepard |first2=Laurie |last3=White |first3=Sarah |date=2004-11-23 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-57779-7 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Taylor |first=Robert A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kqkzDwAAQBAJ&dq=Azalais+d%27altier&pg=PA349 |title=A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature |date=2015-10-02 |publisher=Medieval Institute Publications |isbn=978-1-58044-208-4 |language=en}} She was from Altier in the Gévaudan. She has sometimes been confused with Almucs de Castelnau.

Azalais wrote "Tanz salutz e tantas amors", the only salut d'amor by a woman. It comprises 101 verses of rhyming couplets. Its purpose was to reconcile two lovers, and it was addressed to a woman, possibly Clara d'Anduza. Its similarity in tone to Clara's canso "En greu esmay et en greu pessamen" gives the impression that it may have been written in response. Azalais was well known in troubadour circles, for Uc de Saint-Circ addressed his "Anc mais non vi temps ni sazo" to her in its tornada.{{Cite book |last=Paden |first=William D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m1ErEAAAQBAJ&dq=Azalais+d%27altier&pg=PA24 |title=The Voice of the Trobairitz: Perspectives on the Women Troubadours |date=2016-11-11 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=978-1-5128-0544-4 |language=en}} Nonetheless, the great troubadour ignored her when composing the vidas.

Azalais herself was a woman of learning, and she must have been familiar with the Matter of Rome through the Roman de Troie of Benoît de Sainte-Maure, which she references in her salut:{{Cite book |last1=Campbell |first1=E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PucYDAAAQBAJ&dq=Azalais+d%27altier&pg=PA70 |title=Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality and Sight in Medieval Text and Image |last2=Mills |first2=R. |date=2016-04-30 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-137-11451-8 |language=en}}

There is today a street named "Rue Azalais d'Altier" in Montpellier.