Pau de Bellviure () was a Catalan poet of the fourteenth and/or fifteenth centuries. To the Catalan and Spanish writers of the Renaissance he was a model of courtly love who had attained gran fama (great fame). Pere Torroella lists him among the "doctors" of poetry. According to AusiÃÂ s March, his love for his lady turned him mad and he broke his neck and died, a martyr to love.
"Pau de Bellviure" may be a surname, in which case his given name is unknown. In some manuscripts he is called Benviure, the name of a famous lineage. The castle of Benviure was later absorbed by EramprunyÃÂ, an estate of the March family. In his Prohemio a carta, the Marqués de Santillana begins survey of the history of Catalan verse with Guilhem de Berguedan and "Pao de Benbibre". There is mention of a Paül, son of Pere de Benviure, secretary to John I of Aragon, who died in 1417. According to Guerau de Maçanet, Pau was a member of the noble Rocabertàor Cabrera families. It is unclear whether he was a relative of Majorcan merchant LluÃÂs de Bellviure.
Only one complete poem, Dompna gentil, vos m'enculpats a tort, survives despite Pau's subsequent fame. It is a discreet maldit in which he attacks his lady for her infidelity. A fragment, Per fembre fo Salamo enganat, of a lost poem by Pau is preserved in the Conhort of Francesc Ferrer. In this fragment Pau lists the names of famous men who were the victims of woman's lies: Solomon, David, Samson, Adam, Aristotle, Virgil, John the Baptist, and Hippocrates. In both his extant pieces, Pau comes across as misogynistic, but his light-hearted treatment of the subject and his use of irony assured his popularity. It is unknown whether he really died of love or it is a legend that merely arose from his reference to la mort qui.m corre (death that chases me) in Dompna gentil.