Audefroi le Bastart

Background

Of his life nothing is known, though he is certainly the illegitimate child of a noble or upper-class bourgeouis family, but his family is not to be identified with the noble family Arras or with the bourgeouis family of Louchart, also from Arras; Audefroi himself is not to be identified with Gautier d'Arras.

Career

Little is known about his career.

Audefroi was the author of ten chansons d'amour and five chansons de toile: "Argentine, " "Belle Idoine, " "Belle Isabeau, " "Belle Emmelos, " and "Biatrix. "

These five follow older chansons in subject, but the smoothness of the verse and beauty of detail readily compensate for the spontaneity of the shorter form.

Achievements

• Audefroi le Bastart was a French trouvère from Artois, who flourished in the early thirteenth century and was the author of ten chansons d'amour and five chansons de toile: "Argentine, " "Belle Idoine, " "Belle Isabeau, " "Belle Emmelos, " and "Biatrix. "