Jehan de Braine (''c''. 1200 – 1240) was, ''

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'', the

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and

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and his second wife, Yolanta de Couci. His wife was

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, granddaughter of William V of Mâcon. Jehan was also a

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- ...

and a

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r. He followed

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to the

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in the

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of 1239

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"The Crusade of Theobald of Champagne and Richard of Cornwall, 1239–1241"
in Robert Lee Wolff and Harry W. Hazard (eds.), ''A History of the Crusades, Volume II: The Later Crusades, 1189–1311'' (Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969), pp. 463–86, esp. 469. and there died a year later. His widow sold her counties to the

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. Of Jehan's poetry survive one ''

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'', "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

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, in the Chansonnier Cangé. In the Manuscrit du Roi and the

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the melody ends on different notes. There exist three French poems attributed to

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that are in fact the work of Jehan de Braine.

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, "Jehan de Braine", ''Grove Music Online''. Accessed 20 September 2008.

Moniot d'Arras Moniot d'Arras ('' fl.'' 1213–1239) was a French composer and poet of the trouvère tradition. He was a monk ("Moniot" is a diminutive for monk) of the abbey of Arras in northern France; the area was at the time a center of ''trouvère'' activi ...

addressed one of his ''chansons'' to Jehan, and refers to Jehan's nephew, Jehan le Roux, as ''Comte de Bretagne''.

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