Perrin d'Angicourt

Who is Perrin d'Angicourt?

Perrin d'Angicourt was a trouvère associated with the group of poets active in and around Arras. His birthplace was most likely Achicourt, just south of Arras. His surviving oeuvre is large by the standards of the trouvères, and well-distributed in the chansonniers: thirty-five of his songs survive, in some case in as many as eleven different manuscripts.

Two, or perhaps three, of Perrin's songs—"J'ai un joli souvenir", "Quant partis sui" and perhaps "Quant li cincenis s'escrie"—are described in theor chansonniers as "crowned songs", indicating that they had won poetry competitions, probably under the aegis of the puy d'Arras. Twice Perrin composed jeux partis—"Perrin d'Angicourt, respondés" and "Prince del pui"—with Jehan Bretel, also from Arras, and he is referenced in other jeux partis by Bretel, Gaidifer d'Avion, Lambert Ferri, Jehan de Grieviler and a certain Audefroi, and also a song by Gillebert de Berneville. Perrin dedicated his own songs "Quant voi en la fin" and "Lors quant je voi" to Duke Henry III of Brabant and Count Guy of Flanders, respectively, known patrons of the trouvères of Arras.