Philippe de Rémi (died 1265)
Philippe de Rémi (Old French: "Phelipe de Remi") (1210–1265) was an Old French poet and trouvère from Picardy, and the bailli of the Gâtinais from 1237 to at least 1249. He was also the father of Philippe de Beaumanoir, the famous jurist, by his wife Marie. Biography. By 1255 Philippe was a knight ("chevalier") and the sire (or seigneur) of Beaumanoir. In 1257 he served at the court of the Countess of Artois, Amicie de Courtenay, to arbitrate a dispute between the house of Haute-Avesnes and Guillaume de Hesdigneul. He remained at the court  of Artois until 1259, when he retired to his estate at Remy. He died there in 1265. Besides his middle child, Philippe, he left an elder son, Girard (Gérard), who succeeded him as sire, and a daughter, Péronelle, his children by first wife, Marie. He also left behind his second wife, Alice de Bailleul, whom he had married by 1262 and who was living in 1267. Poetry. Philippe wrote some 20,000 verses of poems and two romances, "La Manekine" and "Jehan et Blonde". All of his work is preserved in B.N., f. fr. 1588, an early fourteenth-century manuscript from  Amiens or Vermandois. There are eleven "chansons" outside of this manuscript with Alfred Jeanroy attributed to him. Among his poem is a unique "salut d'amour", one of only four such pieces with refrains, and the only one with an identified author. It begins "Douce amie, salus vous mande" and includes eight refrains. It has been called a "salut à refrains" analogous to a "chanson avec des refrains". Among Philippe's most studied works are his nonsense poems called "Fatrasies" and "Oiseuses". His courtly love poetry has been under-studied.