Pierre de Corbie was an early 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...

 from the Île-de-France

Île-de-France (province)

The province of Île-de-France or Isle de France is an historical province of France, and the one at the centre of power during most of French history...

. He is probably the same person as the magister Petrus de Corbeia ("master

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 Peter of Corbie") who served as 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 ....

 at Notre Dame d'Arras between 1188 and 1195. All seven of his surviving songs are found in only a few sources; all the melodies are in bar form

Bar form

Bar form is a musical form of the pattern AAB.-Original Use:The term comes from the rigorous terminology of the Meistersinger guilds of the 15th to 18th century who used it to describe their songs and the songs of the predecessors, the minnesingers of the 12th to 14th century...

 and several songs have been assigned different melodies by different sources:

• Dame, ne vous doit desplaire
• En aventure ai chante (several melodies)
• Esbahis en lonc voiage
• Limounier, du mariage (two melodies)
• Par un ajournant
• Pensis com fins amourous
• Amis Guillaume, ainc si sage ne vi (several melodies)

All his songs are typical chansons courtoises save the last one above, which is a jeu-parti.