Ausiàs March

Ausiàs March (c. 1400–1459) was a Valencian poet and knight from Gandia, born into a noble family of poets. On his father's death in 1413 he became head of the family. Knighted young, he joined Alfonso the Magnanimous on Mediterranean expeditions in 1420–1425, then settled at Gandia.

He was twice married, and in 1450 he moved to Valencia, where he died in 1459. A leading poet of the Valencian Golden Century, he wrote in Valencian rather than Occitan; 128 of his poems survive, on love, death and morality.