Jean II de Trie (''c''. 1225 – 1298×1304) was the first of his name (John I) and second of his house to be
Count of Dammartin
The Counts of Dammartin were the rulers of the county of Dammartin, based in the current commune of Dammartin-en-Goële as early as the 10th century. Located at the central plain of France, the county controlled the roads of Paris to Soissons and L ...
. He succeeded his father,
Mathieu, in Dammartin and as lord of
Trie
In computer science, a trie, also called digital tree or prefix tree, is a type of ''k''-ary search tree, a tree data structure used for locating specific keys from within a set. These keys are most often strings, with links between nodes ...
and
Mouchy, on the latter's death in 1272. He is the same person as the
trouvère
''Trouvère'' (, ), sometimes spelled ''trouveur'' (, ), is the Northern French ('' langue d'oïl'') form of the '' langue d'oc'' (Occitan) word ''trobador'', the precursor of the modern French word ''troubadour''. ''Trouvère'' refers to poet ...
Jehan de Trie, to whom two surviving ''
chansons courtoises'' have been attributed. One of these, ''Bone dame me prie de chanter'', is also sometimes attributed to
Theobald I of Navarre
Theobald I (french: Thibaut, es, Teobaldo; 30 May 1201 – 8 July 1253), also called the Troubadour and the Posthumous, was Count of Champagne (as Theobald IV) from birth and King of Navarre from 1234. He initiated the Barons' Crusade, was famou ...
or
Gace Brulé. The other, ''Li lons consirs et la grans volentés'', is undisputed. Both are
isometric,
decasyllabic
Decasyllable (Italian: ''decasillabo'', French: ''décasyllabe'', Serbian: ''десетерац'', ''deseterac'') is a poetic meter of ten syllables used in poetic traditions of syllabic verse. In languages with a stress accent (accentual ...
,
Dorian and set in
bar form
Bar form (German: ''die Barform'' or ''der Bar'') is a musical form of the pattern AAB.
Original use
The term comes from the rigorous terminology of the Meistersinger guilds of the 15th to 18th century who used it to refer to their songs and the ...
, and begin with the
leading-tone
In music theory, a leading-tone (also called a subsemitone, and a leading-note in the UK) is a note or pitch which resolves or "leads" to a note one semitone higher or lower, being a lower and upper leading-tone, respectively. Typically, ''t ...
(the seventh degree). At one place in ''Bone dame'' there occurs the highly unusual octave leap downwards.
According to the ''
Chronique Tournaisienne'', John died fighting for the king of France at the
Battle of the Golden Spurs on 11 July 1302. John had married first Ermengarde, then Yolande, daughter of
John I of Dreux
John I of Dreux (1215–1249), Count of Dreux and Braine, was the son of Robert III of Dreux and Annora (Aenor) of Saint-Valéry.
Life
Knighted by King Louis IX of France, he accompanied the king on several campaigns, firstly in Poitou in 124 ...
. The latter bore him two children:
Renaud
Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan (), known as Renaud (), born 11 May 1952, is a French singer, songwriter and actor. His characteristically 'broken' voice makes for a very distinctive vocal style. Several of his songs are popular classics in F ...
, who succeeded him prior to May 1304, and Mahaut, who in 1298 married Henry de Vergy (died 1333). Some sources place his death at the
Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle
The Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle (or Pevelenberg) was fought on 18 August 1304 between the French and the Flemish. The French were led by their king, Philip IV.
Prelude
The French king wanted revenge for the defeat in Battle of the Golden Sp ...
on 18 August 1304, but this is after his son Renaud had already become count in May.
Bibliography
*Claerr, Thierry. "Jean de Trie, comte de Dammartin et poète lyrique du XIII
e siècle: est-il le héros du ''Roman de Jehan de Dammartin et Blonde d'Oxford''?" ''Romania'', 117:1–2 (1999), 258–72.
*Courtenay, William J. "Between Pope and King: The Parisian Letters of Adhesion of 1303." ''
Speculum'', 71:3 (1996), 577–605.
*
Delisle, Léopold Victor''Recherches sur les Comtes de Dammartin''Société des antiquaires de France, 1869.
*DeVries, Kelly. "The Use of Chronicles in Creating Medieval Military History". ''The Journal of Medieval Military History'', 2 (2004), 1–16.
*Dyggve, Holger Petersen. ''Trouvères et protecteurs de trouvères dans les cours seigneuriales de France''. Helsinki, 1942.
*
Karp, Theodore"Jehan de Trie."''Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online.'' Accessed 20 September 2008.
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Counts of Dammartin
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Year of birth uncertain
Male classical composers