Philippe de Nanteuil
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)knight, trouvère
Known forCrusades, poetry

Philippe de Nanteuil was a French knight and trouvère. He inherited the seigneurie of Nanteuil-le-Haudouin from his father, also Philippe de Nanteuil. He was a vassal of Thibaut de Champagne, who was king of Navarre and also a trouvère, and became his friend.[1]: 48 

In 1239 Gautier de Brienne, the count of Jaffa, along with De Nanteuil and many other French crusaders, was taken prisoner by the Ayyubids during the Barons' Crusade,[2] and imprisoned in Cairo. There De Nanteuil wrote a crusade song, En chantant veil mon duel faire,[3]: 221  critical of the military orders.[4]: 60 

References

  1. ^ [Louis Hardouin Prosper Tarbé] (1850). Les chansonniers de Champagne aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles (in French). Reims: P. Regnier.
  2. ^ Jean Richard (1996). Histoire des Croisades (in French). [Paris]: Fayard. ISBN 9782213597874.
  3. ^ Charles Marie Joseph Bédier (1909). Les Chansons de Croisade (in French). Paris: Librairie Ancienne.
  4. ^ Christopher Marshall (1996 [1992]). Warfare in the Latin East, 1192-1291. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521394284.
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