Pierrekin de la Coupele

Who is Pierrekin de la Coupele?

Pierrekin de la Coupele was a north French trouvère, from the Pas-de-Calais, probably the areas nowadays called Coupelle-Vieille and Coupelle-Neuve. He is regarded as a poor poet. His literary connexions and his floruit can be established by his song Je chant en aventure, directed at an unnamed Count of Soissons, usually identified with Jehan de Nesle, called le Bon et le Bègue, who was certainly familiar with the trouvères, for his brother and predecessor, Ralph, was one.

Of Pierrekin's total oeuvre, six pieces survive, half with their music. A later addition to the Chansonnier du Roi, the song A mon pooir ai servi is through-composed in mensural notation. Lines equivalent in length are not all treated as rhythmically identical. Pierrekin's other songs with surviving music are Cançon faz non pas vilaine and Je chant en aventure. The three songs J'ai la meillor qui soit en vie, Quant ivers et frois depart, and Quant li tens jolis revient do not have surviving music.