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Philippe de Nanteuil

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Philippe II de Nanteuil
NationalityFrance
Other namesPhilippus Natolii, Philippus de Nantolio
Occupation(s)knight, troubadour
Known forEn chantant veil mon duel faire

Philippe de Nanteuil (Latin: Philippus de Nantolio) was a French knight and troubadour. He was a vassal of Thibaut de Champagne, the King of Navarre. and became Thibaut's friend. Philippe de Nanteuil inherited the seigneurie of Nanteuil-le-Haudouin in northern France from his father. His father was also called Philippe de Nanteuil.[1]

Philippe de Nanteuil fought with other French knights in the Crusades. In 1239 he and many other French knights lost a battle against the Ayyubids at Gaza. They were taken prisoner by the Ayyubids and put in a prison in Cairo. Philippe de Nanteuil wrote a famous song while he was in prison. It was called En chantant veil mon duel faire. The song was about the defeat of the Christian knights. It criticized the leaders of the three main military orders, the Knights Templar, the Knights Hospitaller, and the Teutonic Order.[2][3][4]

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(1224) Philippo de Natolio (Natolii) Iuvenis:

“ armed with all pieces, crowned with a low-shaped helmet, bearing, suspended from the neck, a shield with his coat of arms: with six tongues of gold fleurs-de-lis, holding in the right hand a raised naked sword, and mounted on a galloping horse to the right whose caparison is embroidered with his coat of arms. ”

One of the ancestors of this illustrious family was Raoul II, Count of Crépy and Valois, the husband of the Queen of France Anne of Russia of the Capetian dynasty, widow of King Henry I of France, and it is for this reason that the family of Nanteuil (lat. Natolii) bears six fleurs-de-lis on its coat of arms.

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  1. ↑ Tarbé (1850). Les Chansonniers de Champagne aux XIIe et XIIIe siecles. Impr. P. Regnier. p. 48.
  2. ↑ Charles Marie Joseph Bédier (1909). Les Chansons de Croisade, pp. 218-220 (in French). Paris: Librairie Ancienne.
  3. ↑ Richard, Jean (1996). Histoire des croisades. Fayard. ISBN 978-2-213-64061-7.
  4. ↑ Marshall, Christopher (1994). Warfare in the Latin East, 1192-1291. Cambridge University Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-521-47742-0.
  5. ↑ . Trésor de Numismatique et de Glyptique (in French). Plate III, n° 6, p. 6. Original in French (1224).
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