Philippe de Nanteuil was a French

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and trouvère. He inherited the ''seigneurie'' of Nanteuil-le-Haudouin from his father, also Philippe de Nanteuil. He was a

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of Thibaut de Champagne, who was king of

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and also a trouvère, and became his friend. In 1239 Gautier de Brienne, the

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, along with De Nanteuil and many other French crusaders, was taken prisoner by the Ayyubids during the

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, and imprisoned in

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. There De Nanteuil wrote a crusade song, ''En chantant veil mon duel faire'', critical of the military orders.

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