Dame Maroie Explained

Dame Maroie or Maroie de Dregnau/Dergnau de Lille (fl. 13th century) was a trouvère from Arras, in Artois, France. She was identified as the Maroie de Dregnau de Lille^[1] from whom a single strophe of a single chanson remains, "Mout m'abelist quant je voi revenir" (in a typical trouvère form, ABABCDE), along with its music.^{[2] [3]} She debates Dame Margot in a jeu parti, or debate song, "Je vous pri, dame Maroie."^[4] This song survives in two manuscripts,^[5] which each give separate and unrelated melodies.^[6] Dame Maroie is the addressee in a grand chant by Andrieu Contredit d'Arras.^[7]

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• Book: Berger, Roger. Littérature et sociéte arrageoises au XIIIe siècle: Les chansons et dits artésiens. 1981. Commission Départementale des Monuments Historiques du Pas-de-Calais. Arras.
• Coldwell, Maria V. "Margot, Dame, and Maroie, Dame", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed October 21, 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access).
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• Pfeffer, Wendy. “Attributing Another Song to Maroie de Diergnau de Lille”, Textual Cultures 14.2 (2021): 115-133 (accessed April 26, 2024)https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/textual/article/view/33654.
• 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 .
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Notes and References

1. Petersen Dyggve 176.
2. Manuscript F-Pn f.f. 844, f.181. Coldwell.
3. Doss-Quinby 27.
4. Doss-Quinby 27.
5. F-AS MS 657, f.141v and V-CVbav Reg. MS 1490, f.140r
6. Coldwell.
7. Doss-Quinby 27.