Guillelma de Rosers also spelled Guilleuma, Guillielma, Guilielma, or Guilhelma, was a Provençal

Provence

Provence ; Provençal: Provença in classical norm or Prouvènço in Mistralian norm) is a region of south eastern France on the Mediterranean adjacent to Italy. It is part of the administrative région of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur...

 trobairitz

Trobairitz

The trobairitz were Occitan female troubadours of the 12th and 13th centuries, active from around 1170 to approximately 1260. The word trobairitz was first used in the 13th-century romance Flamenca. It comes from the Provençal word trobar, the literal meaning of which is "to find", and the...

 of the mid-thirteenth century, one of the last known trobairitz. She was originally from Rougiers

Rougiers

Rougiers is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France....

 but lived in Genoa

Genoa

Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....

 for a long time, where she met Lanfranc Cigala

Lanfranc Cigala

Lanfranc Cigala was a Genoese nobleman, knight, judge, and man of letters of the mid thirteenth century. He remains one of the most famous Occitan troubadours of Lombardy. Thirty-two of his poems survive, dealing with Crusading, heresy, papal power, peace in Christendom, and loyalty in love...

, who wrote about her in some songs. These and Lanfranc's vida

Vida (Occitan literary form)

Vida is the usual term for a brief prose biography, written in Old Occitan, of a troubadour or trobairitz.The word vida means "life" in Occitan languages. In the chansonniers, the manuscript collections of medieval troubadour poetry, the works of a particular author are often accompanied by a...

form the major source of information about her life. She is also the addressee—la flor de cortezia, the flower of courtliness—of an anonymous canso

Canso (song)

The canso is a song style used by the troubadours. It consists of three parts. The first stanza is the exordium, where the composer explains his purpose. The main body of the song occurs in the following stanzas, and usually draw out a variety of relationships with the exordium. The canso can end...

, "Quan Proensa ac perduda proeza" (when Provence had lost prowess), which bemoans her long stay in Genoa.

Guillelma's only surviving piece of poetry is a partimen

Partimen

The partimen is a genre of Occitan lyric poetry composed between two troubadours, a subgenre of the tenso or cobla exchange in which one poet presents a dilemma in the form of a question and the two debate the answer, each taking up a different side. It was especially popular in poetic contests....

, "Na Guillelma, maint cavalier arratge", with Lanfranc, in which he posed her the dilemma:

Dame Guilllelma, a band of weary knights

abroad in the dark, in most dismal weather,

wished aloud in their own tongues that they might

find shelter. Two lovers happened to over-

hear while on their way to their ladies who

lived close at hand; one of them turned back to

help the knights, the other went to his lady:

which of the two behaved most fittingly?

Guillelma answered that l'autre fes ben ("the other did well") for "the man who keeps his word is held in much / higher esteem than he whose plans are in flux."