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
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)knight, trouvère
Known forCrusades, poetry

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

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  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.