Raoul de Soissons

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

• 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...

External links

• "Ma belle blonde au cœur si gent", The LiederNet Archive (12 August 2020)