Jehan de Braine
Jehan de Braine (c. 1200 – 1240) was, jure uxoris, the Count of Mâcon and Vienne from 1224 until his death. He was a younger son of Robert II of Dreux[1] and his second wife, Yolande de Coucy. His wife was Alix, granddaughter of William V of Mâcon.[2] Jehan was also a trouvère and a Crusader. He followed Theobald I of Navarre to the Holy Land in the Barons' Crusade of 1239[3] and there died a year later. His widow, Alix, sold her counties to Louis IX of France.[2]
Of Jehan's poetry survive one pastourelle, "Par desous l'ombre d'un bois", and two chansons d'amour, "Pensis d'amours, joians et corociés" and "Je n'os chanter trop tart ne trop souvent". Of these "Pensis d'amours" alone is preserved in mensural notation, in the Chansonnier Cangé. In the Manuscrit du Roi and the Chansonnier de Noailles the melody ends on different notes. There exist three French poems attributed to John of Brienne that are in fact the work of Jehan de Braine.[4]
Moniot d'Arras addressed one of his chansons to Jehan, and refers to Jehan's nephew, Jehan le Roux, as Comte de Bretagne.[4]
References
- ^ Pippenger & Jordan 2022, p. 143.
- ^ a b Berman 2018, p. 193.
- ^ Painter 1969, p. 463-486.
- ^ a b Theodore Karp, "Jehan de Braine", Grove Music Online. Accessed 20 September 2008.
Sources
- Berman, Constance Hoffman (2018). The White Nuns: Cistercian Abbeys for Women in Medieval France. University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Painter, Sidney (1969). "The Crusade of Theobald of Champagne and Richard of Cornwall, 1239–1241". In Wolff, Robert Lee; Hazard, Harry W. (eds.). A History of the Crusades, Volume II: The Later Crusades, 1189–1311. University of Wisconsin Press.
- Pippenger, Randall Todd; Jordan, William Chester, eds. (2022). Tales of a Minstrel of Reims in the Thirteenth Century. Translated by Rosenberg, Samuel N. Catholic University of America Press.
Further reading
- Guerreau, Alain. "Jean de Braine, trouvère et dernier comte de Mâcon (1224–1240)." Annales de Bourgogne, 43(1971):81–96.
- v
- t
- e
- Adam de Givenchi
- Adam de la Halle
- Adenet Le Roi
- Andrieu Contredit d'Arras
- Aubertin d'Airaines
- Aubin de Sézanne
- Audefroi le Bastart
- Baudouin des Auteus
- Benoît de Sainte-Maure
- Bestournés
- Blondel de Nesle
- Carasaus
- Chastelain de Couci
- Chardon de Croisilles
- Châtelain d'Arras
- Chrétien de Troyes
- Colart le Boutellier
- Colart le Changeur
- Colin Muset
- Conon de Béthune
- Coupart
- Ernoul Caupain
- Ernoul le Vieux
- Étienne de Meaux
- Eustache le Peintre de Reims
- Gace Brulé
- Gaidifer d'Avion
- Gautier de Coincy
- Gautier de Dargies
- Gautier d'Espinal
- Gillebert de Berneville
- Gilles le Vinier
- Gobin de Reims
- Gontier de Soignies
- Guibert Kaukesel
- Guillaume d'Amiens
- Guillaume de Ferrières
- Guillaume le Vinier
- Guillaume Veau
- Guiot de Dijon
- Guiot de Provins
- Henry Amion
- Henry le Débonnaire
- Henri de Lacy
- Hue de la Ferté
- Hugues de Berzé
- Huon d'Oisi
- Huon de Saint-Quentin
- Jaque de Dampierre
- Jacques Bretel
- Jacques de Cambrai
- Jacques de Cysoing
- Jacques le Vinier
- Jean Bodel
- Jean Renaut
- Jehan Bretel
- Jehan le Cuvelier d'Arras
- Jehan Erart
- Jean le Roux
- Jehan de Braine
- Jehan Fremaux
- Jehan de Grieviler
- Jehan de Nuevile
- Jehan de Trie
- Jocelin de Dijon
- Lambert Ferri
- Lorris Acot
- Mahieu de Gant
- Mahieu le Juif
- Moniot d'Arras
- Moniot de Paris
- Oede de la Couroierie
- Othon de Grandson
- Perrin d'Angicourt
- Perrot de Neele
- Philippe de Nanteuil
- Philippe de Remy
- Pierre de Corbie
- Pierre de Molins
- Pierrekin de la Coupele
- Raoul de Beauvais
- Raoul de Ferier
- Raoul de Soissons
- Richard de Fournival
- Richart de Semilli
- Richard I of England
- Robert de Blois
- Robert de Castel
- Robert de Reims
- Robert de la Piere
- Rutebeuf
- Simon d'Authie
- Sauvage d'Arraz
- Thibaut de Blazon
- Thibaut le Chansonnier
- Thierri de Soissons
- Thomas de Herier
- Vielart de Corbie
- Walter of Bibbesworth
- Blanche of Castile
- Dame de la Chaucie
- Dame de Gosnai
- Gertrude of Dagsburg
- Lorete
- Margot
- Maroie de Diergnau
- Sainte des Prez