Blondel De Nesle

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Blondel de Nesle - either Jean I of Nesle (c. 1155 – 1202) or his son Jean II of Nesle (d. 1241) - was a French trouvère. The name 'Blondel de Nesle' is attached to twenty-four or twenty-five works. He was identified in 1942, by Holger Dyggve, as Jean II of Nesle (near Amiens), who was nicknamed 'Blondel' for his long blond hair. He married at the time of his father's death in 1202, and that same year, went on the Fourth Crusade; he later fought in the Albigensian Crusade. However, in 1994, Yvan Lepage suggested that the poet may have been Jean I, father of Jean II, who was Lord of Nesle from 1180 to 1202; this Jean took part in the Third Crusade, which may explain the subsequent legend linking him with Richard I of England. If the works are correctly identified and dated, he was a significant influence on his European contemporaries, who made much use of his melodies. (The melody of "L'amours dont sui espris" is used in Carmina Burana, for the song "Procurans Odium"). His works are fairly conventional, and several have been recorded in modern times. LEGEND By 1260, Blondel's name had become attached to a legend in the highly fictionalised Récits d'un Ménestrel de Reims; this claimed that, after Richard I of England was arrested and held for ransom in 1192, he was found by the minstrel Blondel, whom he saw from his window, and to whom he sang a verse of a song they both knew. Later versions of the story related that Blondel went from castle to castle, singing a particular

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Under the Greenwood Tree

Medieval Music (The Cross of Red - Music of Love and War From the Time of the Crusades)(New Orleans Musica Da Camera)

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Choral Music (German) - Pfluger, H.-G. / Luther, M. / Petzold, J. / Bach, J.S. / Gruber, F.X. / Reading, J. / Nicolai, P.

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Josquin Des Prez: Messe Gaudeamus - Les Fresques Musicales de St. Bonnet-le Chateau

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Songs of Chivalry

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Vocal Music - Gillebert De Berneville / Miller, T. / Blondel De Nesle / Guiot De Dijon / Vitry, P. (La Rota Ensemble)

Music For the Lion-Hearted King

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Trouveres:Höfische Liebeslieder aus Nordfrankreich

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Music for a Knight

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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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Musique au temps des Templiers

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Estampie - Münchner Ensemble Für Frühe Musik, Under The Greenwood Tree

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