Philippe de Nanteuil

Philippe de Nanteuil
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	knight, trouvère
Known for	Crusades, 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.