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= Afonso Eanes do Coton = Afonso Eanes do Coton (also known as Alfonso Eanes de Cotón and Afons’Eanes) was a Galician troubadour in the thirteenth century who was active in the courts of Fernando III and Alfonso X. He is a very important figure in Negreira in A Coruña where a poetry prize carries his name and where a ceramic figure of him made by Sargadelos is given to illustrious visitors to the town hall. There is also a street named after him in Ciudad Real.

Biography
It is thought that Afonso Eanes do Coton was born at the end of the twelfth century or the beginning of the thirteenth in Negreira where we find the Pazo do Cotón. There are also theories that suggest he was born in Santiago de Compostela because his supposed father (Iohannes Cothon) had a house there.

Eanes do Coton presents himself as a squire and so he probably descended from a family in the low nobility. Another sign of this is that he reproaches those troubadours who charge for their art. There is evidence that he participated in reconquest campaigns led by Fernando III and from his poems we can tell that he also participated in the siege of Jaén in 1246 and the occupation of Seville and Córdoba. According to him, he undertook most of the Camino Francés because he was in love with a woman about whom he knew next to nothing.

At Fernando III’s court he composed alongside Martin Soares, Joan Soares Coelho and Rui Gomes de Briteiros. He also knew Gonzalo Eanes do Vinhal and Pero da Ponte.

He was known for having enjoyed some vices, Martin Soares accuses him of this in one poem. According to Alfonso X, Eanes do Coton was murdered by Pero da Ponte, seemingly in a tavern in Ciudad Real (known then as Villa Real) around 1266.

Works
We conserve fourteen cantigas de escarnio e maldizer by Afonso Eanes do Coton, two cantigas de amigo and two tenzóns, both with Pero da Ponte. He is the possible author of 2 further cantigas de escarnio, one cantiga de amor and one cantiga de amigo.