Lambert Ferri was a trouvère

Trouvère

Trouvère , sometimes spelled trouveur , is the Northern French form of the word trobador . It refers to poet-composers who were roughly contemporary with and influenced by the troubadours but who composed their works in the northern dialects of France...

 and cleric at the Benedictine

Benedictine

Benedictine refers to the spirituality and consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century for the cenobitic communities he founded in central Italy. The most notable of these is Monte Cassino, the first monastery founded by Benedict...

 monastery at Saint-Léonard, Pas-de-Calais

Saint-Léonard, Pas-de-Calais

Saint-Léonard is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.-Geography:Saint-Léonard is a farming and light industrial town, situated some south of Boulogne, at the junction of the D901 and D940 roads...

. By 1268 he was a canon

Canon (priest)

A canon is a priest or minister who is a member of certain bodies of the Christian clergy subject to an ecclesiastical rule ....

 and a deacon

Deacon

Deacon is a ministry in the Christian Church that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions...

 of the monastery; he is last associated with the monastery in 1282.

He was a popular partner for jeux partis, of which some twenty-seven survive between him and other composers, including Jehan Bretel

Jehan Bretel

Jehan Bretel was a trouvère. Of his known oeuvre of probably 97 songs, 96 have survived. Judging by his contacts with other trouvères he was famous and popular...

, Jehan le Cuvelier d'Arras

Jehan le Cuvelier d'Arras

Jehan le Cuvelier d'Arras was a trouvère associated with the so-called "school of Arras". He may be the same person as Johannes Cuvellarius from Bapaume, a suburb of Arras, who is mentioned in documents of 1258. He was the respondent in nine jeux partis and judge of six; he also composed six...

, Jehan de Grieviler

Jehan de Grieviler

Jehan de Grieviler was an Artesian cleric and trouvère.Jehan was probably born at Grévillers near Arras. A certain "Grieviler" is mentioned in the necrology of the Confrérie des jongleurs et des bourgeois d'Arras under 1254–5, but since Jehan was a known member of the Puy d'Arras, he cannot...

, Jehan de Marli, Phelipot Verdiere, Robert Casnois, and Robert de La Pierre. Eleven of his songs have surviving melodies, including seven of the jeux partis, three chansons

Grand chant

The gran chan or, in modern French, chanson courtoise or chanson d'amour, often abbreviated chanson, was a genre of Old French lyric poetry devised by the trouvères. It was adopted from the Occitan canso of the troubadours, but scholars stress that it was a distinct genre...

, and one Marian serventois.

Table of extant songs

incipit Incipit Incipit is a Latin word meaning "it begins". The incipit of a text, such as a poem, song, or book, is the first few words of its opening line. In music, it can also refer to the opening notes of a composition. Before the development of titles, texts were often referred to by their incipits...	genre Genre Genre , Greek: genos, γένος) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time...	surviving melody	co-author
Aïmans fins et verais Debonairetes	serventois	yes
Amours qui m’a du tout en sa baillie	chanson	yes
J'ai tant d’amours apris et entendu Que desoremais	chanson	yes
Li tres dous tens ne la saison novele	chanson	yes
Lambert Ferri, une dame est amee	jeu-parti	no	Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel was a trouvère. Of his known oeuvre of probably 97 songs, 96 have survived. Judging by his contacts with other trouvères he was famous and popular...
Lambert Ferri, li qeus doit mieus avoir	jeu-parti	no	Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel was a trouvère. Of his known oeuvre of probably 97 songs, 96 have survived. Judging by his contacts with other trouvères he was famous and popular...
Ferri, se ja dieus vous voie	jeu-parti	no	Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel was a trouvère. Of his known oeuvre of probably 97 songs, 96 have survived. Judging by his contacts with other trouvères he was famous and popular...
Lambert, il sont doi amant	jeu-parti	no	Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel was a trouvère. Of his known oeuvre of probably 97 songs, 96 have survived. Judging by his contacts with other trouvères he was famous and popular...
Lambert, se vous amiés bien loiaument	jeu-parti	no	Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel was a trouvère. Of his known oeuvre of probably 97 songs, 96 have survived. Judging by his contacts with other trouvères he was famous and popular...
Ferri, se vous bien amiés	jeu-parti	no	Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel was a trouvère. Of his known oeuvre of probably 97 songs, 96 have survived. Judging by his contacts with other trouvères he was famous and popular...
Lambert, une amie avés	jeu-parti	no	Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel was a trouvère. Of his known oeuvre of probably 97 songs, 96 have survived. Judging by his contacts with other trouvères he was famous and popular...
Amis Lambert Ferri, vous trouverés	jeu-parti	no	Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel was a trouvère. Of his known oeuvre of probably 97 songs, 96 have survived. Judging by his contacts with other trouvères he was famous and popular...
Lambert Ferri, s'une dame orgeilleuse	jeu-parti	no	Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel was a trouvère. Of his known oeuvre of probably 97 songs, 96 have survived. Judging by his contacts with other trouvères he was famous and popular...
Lambert Ferri, je vous part	jeu-parti	no	Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel was a trouvère. Of his known oeuvre of probably 97 songs, 96 have survived. Judging by his contacts with other trouvères he was famous and popular...
Entendés, Lambert Ferri	jeu-parti	no	Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel was a trouvère. Of his known oeuvre of probably 97 songs, 96 have survived. Judging by his contacts with other trouvères he was famous and popular...
Ferri, a vostre ensïent	jeu-parti	no	Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel was a trouvère. Of his known oeuvre of probably 97 songs, 96 have survived. Judging by his contacts with other trouvères he was famous and popular...
Lambert Ferri, drois est ke m'entremete	jeu-parti	no	Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel was a trouvère. Of his known oeuvre of probably 97 songs, 96 have survived. Judging by his contacts with other trouvères he was famous and popular...
Sire Bretel, entendés	jeu-parti	no	Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel was a trouvère. Of his known oeuvre of probably 97 songs, 96 have survived. Judging by his contacts with other trouvères he was famous and popular...
Jehan Bretel, par raison	jeu-parti	yes	Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel was a trouvère. Of his known oeuvre of probably 97 songs, 96 have survived. Judging by his contacts with other trouvères he was famous and popular...
Prince del pui, selon vostre pensee	jeu-parti	yes	Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel was a trouvère. Of his known oeuvre of probably 97 songs, 96 have survived. Judging by his contacts with other trouvères he was famous and popular...
Sire Bretel, entendés	jeu-parti	yes	Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel Jehan Bretel was a trouvère. Of his known oeuvre of probably 97 songs, 96 have survived. Judging by his contacts with other trouvères he was famous and popular...
Biau(s) Phelipot Verdiere, je vous (or vai) proi	jeu-parti	no	Pilippot Verdiere
Robert del Caisnoi, amis	jeu-parti	no	Robert del Caisnoi
De ce (or cou), Robert de la Piere	jeu-parti	yes	Robert de la Piere Robert de la Piere Robert de la Piere was a trouvère of the so-called "school" of Arras. In his time Robert's bourgeois family was prominent in Arras, though the earliest known member is only recorded in 1212. Robert served as a magistrate in 1255, as attested by one surviving document in the municipal archives...
Grieveler, j'ai grant mestier	jeu-parti	yes	Jehan de Grieviler Jehan de Grieviler Jehan de Grieviler was an Artesian cleric and trouvère.Jehan was probably born at Grévillers near Arras. A certain "Grieviler" is mentioned in the necrology of the Confrérie des jongleurs et des bourgeois d'Arras under 1254–5, but since Jehan was a known member of the Puy d'Arras, he cannot...
Jehan, tres bien amerés	jeu-parti	yes	Jehan de Grieviler Jehan de Grieviler Jehan de Grieviler was an Artesian cleric and trouvère.Jehan was probably born at Grévillers near Arras. A certain "Grieviler" is mentioned in the necrology of the Confrérie des jongleurs et des bourgeois d'Arras under 1254–5, but since Jehan was a known member of the Puy d'Arras, he cannot...