Baudouin des Auteus

Baudouin des Auteus ( _la. Balduinus de Altaribus) was a Picard trouvère of the early thirteenth century, probably from Autheux near Doullens. [François-Xavier Féghali (1875), [http://www.citadelle.org/lexique-611-Baudouin-des-Auteus,-ou-des-Autheux.cfm "Baudouin des Auteus, ou des Autheux,"] "Dictionnaire des noms, surnoms et pseudonymes latins de l'histoire littéraire du Moyen Age (1100 à 1530)", Alfred Franklin, ed. (Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie).] Unfortunately, "the two works attributed to him are both of disputed authorship." [Theodore Karp, [http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/02347 "Baudouin des Auteus,"] "Grove Music Online", "Oxford Music Online" (accessed 20 September 2008).]

The song "M'ame et mon cors doing a celi" is recorded with two different melodies, one in the manuscript tradition of BnF F-Pa 5198 and another in the Chansonnier du Roi and Noailles Chansonnier. The latter melody is non-repetitive, while the poem is isometric. The other song ascribed by some manuscripts to Baudouin is "Avril ne mai, froidure ne let tans". It too is isometric, decasyllabic, and having eight-line stanzas. Though it is also attributed to Gace Brulé, the attribution to Baudouin is more likely. [Theodore Karp (1962), "Borrowed Material in Trouvère Music," "Acta Musicologica", 34(3), 98.]

It was once suggested that Baudouin des Auteus was the same Baudouin that participated in some "jeux partis" with Theobald I of Navarre, but this is dubious.

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