Audefroi le Batard
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Of his life nothing is known. The Seigneur de Nesles, to whom some of his songs are addressed, is probably the Châtelain of Bruges who joined the Fourth Crusade.
Audefroi was the author of at least five lyric romances: Argentine, Belle Idoine, Belle Isabeau, Belle Emmelos, and Biatrix. These romances follow older chansons in subject, but the smoothness of the verse and beauty of detail readily compensate for the spontaneity of the shorter form.
References
A. Jeanroy, Les Origines de la poesie lyrique en France au moyen age (Paris, 1889).
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