Bestournés (also Bestornez, Bestorneis, le Bastorneis, Baistornez) is a name given to the thirteenth-century trouvère credited with writing five pieces (three love songs, one jeu-parti, and one pastourelle) preserved in later thirteenth and early fourteenth century song books. The name is mostly likely a sobriquet meaning 'altered', 'changed', 'reversed', or 'metamorphosed', often 'applied to someone who, by a quirk of fate, under-went a complete reversal of fortune, either favorable or unfavorable'. As all six of these songs are preserved in the (Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS 389), which was copied in Metz, and all but one of the songs are only copied there and in other Metz-copied sources, the poet-composer can probably be associated with the musical life of medieval Metz. As the name is l
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