Raoul de Soissons
Crusader and trouvère
Raoul de Soissons (1210/15 – 1270, or shortly thereafter) was a French nobleman, Crusader, and trouvère. He was the second son of Raoul le Bon, Count of Soissons, and became the Sire de Coeuvres in 1232. He participated in three Crusades.
Quotes
edit- Ha belle blonde
Au cors si gent
Perle du monde
Que j'aime tant!- Ah! beauteous maid,
Of form so fair!
Pearl of the world,
Beloved and dear! - From the Anthologie Françoise (cp. Ravalière, Les poésies du roy de Navarre, vol. 2, p. 213), as translated by Edgar Taylor, Lays of the Minnesingers and Troubadours (1825), p. 267
- Cp. verses of the Troubadour Peyrols: Gran talen ai qu'un baisar...
- Ah! beauteous maid,
External links
edit- "Ma belle blonde au cœur si gent", The LiederNet Archive (12 August 2020)