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= Pero Meogo = Pero Meogo (also Pedro Meogo and Pero Moogo) was a Galician minstrel and troubadour in the thirteenth century.

Biography
There is very little biographical information about Pero Meogo that has survived. His poems are conserved in the section of the cancioneiros known as the Cancioneiro de jograis galegos and from this we can deduce that he was Galician and possibly a minstrel.

It is thought that he must have lived at the same time as King Dom Dinis of Portugal who reigned from 1279 to 1325 and who composed a cantiga de seguir which is connected to Meogo’s poem Levantous’ a velida. Nine cantigas de amigo by Meogo survive.

In thirteenth-century sources, there is a Galician cleric in Ourense and a notary in Santiago with the same name. The scholar José Antonio Souto Cabo has identified the poet Pero Meogo, using archival sources at the Cathedral of Santiago, with a cleric from the municipality of Teo; this cleric is also connected to the troubadour Sancho Sanchez and the minstrel Martin de Sisto.

Poetry
Nine poems by Pero Meogo survive. The medieval Galician-Portuguese lyric specialists, Carlos Alvar and Vicenç Beltrán, have placed Pero Meogo’s work somewhere between the cantiga narrativa (a narrative song) and the cantiga de amigo. In Meogo’s work we find lots of symbols from nature used, especially the deer.