Philippe de Nanteuil

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

Philippe de Nanteuil
NationalityFrance
Occupationknight, trouvère
Known forCrusades, poetry

In 1239 Gautier de Brienne, the count of Jaffa, was taken prisoner by the Ayyubids during the Barons' Crusade, together with many French crusaders.[2] De Nanteuil was among them, and was imprisoned in Cairo. There he 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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