Dame Margot (trouvère) explained

Dame Margot (fl. 13th century) was a trouvère from Arras, in Picardy, France. One extant work of hers is jeu parti, a debate song, in which she debates Dame Maroie. This song, "Je vous pri, dame Maroie," survives in two manuscripts,^[1] which each give separate and unrelated melodies.^[2] In another jeu parti she is a judge, opposing Jehan le Cuvelier d'Arras and Jehan Bretel.^[3] She is listed as a member of the Puy d'Arras.^[4]

Sources

• Book: Berger, Roger. Littérature et société arrageoises au XIIIe siècle: Les chansons et dits artésiens. 1981. Commission Départementale des Monuments Historiques du Pas-de-Calais. Arras.
• Maria V. Coldwell. "Margot, Dame, and Maroie, Dame", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed October 21, 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access).
• Book: Doss-Quinby, Eglal. Songs of the Women Trouvères. 2001. Yale UP. New Haven. 0-300-08413-7. Joan Tasker Grimbert . Wendy Pfeffer . Elizabeth Aubrey .

Notes and References

1. F-AS MS 657, f.141v and V-CVbav Reg. MS 1490, f.140r
2. Coldwell.
3. Doss-Quinby 27-28.
4. Berger 113.