Dame Maroie

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

References

Notes

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

Bibliography

• Berger, Roger (1981). Littérature et sociéte arrageoises au XIIIe siècle: Les chansons et dits artésiens. Arras: Commission Départementale des Monuments Historiques du Pas-de-Calais.
• Coldwell, Maria V. "Margot, Dame, and Maroie, Dame", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed October 21, 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access).
• Coldwell, Maria V. "Maroie de Dregnau de Lille", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed October 22, 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access).
• Doss-Quinby, Eglal; Joan Tasker Grimbert; Wendy Pfeffer; Elizabeth Aubrey (2001). Songs of the Women Trouvères. New Haven: Yale UP. ISBN 0-300-08413-7.
• Petersen Dyggve, Holger (1934). Onomastique des trouvères. Société Philologique.