Chambre des Comptes for a short time. By 1415, he was a councillor of the king and the
duke of Guyenne. He was killed at Agincourt in October of that year.
Richard C.Famiglietti
[See also: GRAND MASTER; MARMOUSETS]
Teulet, Alexandre, et al, eds. Layettes du trésor des chartes. 5 vols. Paris: Archives Nationales,
1863–1909, Vol. 5, ed. Henri-François Delaborde, 1900.
Famiglietti, Richard C. Tales of the Marriage Bed from Medieval France (1300–1500). Providence:
Picardy, 1992.
Malte-Brun, Victor Adolphe. Histoire de Marcoussis, de ses seigneurs et de son monastère. Paris:
Aubry, 1867.
Merlet, Lucien. “Biographie de Jean de Montagu, grand maître de France.” Bibliothèque de l’École
des Chartes 13(1852): 248–84.
MONTAUDON, MONK OF
(fl. 1194–1210). After becoming a monk at Vic near Aurillac (Cantal), then prior of an
abbey perhaps located at the place called Montaudou near Clermont-Ferrand, the Monk
of Montaudon left the cloister to become a troubadour. In addition to a number of more
conventional cansos, or love songs, we have among the poems he wrote from 1194 to
1210 a series of witty debates with God; a satirical gallery of troubadours in the tradition
established by Peire d’Alvernhe; four enuegz, or lists of annoyances, and one plazer, or
list of pleasures. The genres of the enueg and plazer were inspired by Bertran de Born but
took their definitive form in the hands of the Monk and were later imitated by poets who
wrote in Italian, French, Portuguese, Catalan, and English, including Shakespeare
(Sonnet 66).
William D.Paden
[See also: TROUBADOUR POETRY]
Montaudon, Monk of. Lespoésies du Moine de Montaudon, ed. Michael J.Routledge. Montpellier:
Centre d’Études Occitanes, 1977.
Riquer, Martin de, ed. Los trovadores: historia literaria y textos. 3 vols. Barcelona: Planeta, 1975,
Vol. 2, pp. 1024–45.
Routledge, Michael J. “The Monk Who Knew the Ways of Love.” Reading Medieval Studies
12(1986):3–25.
MONTEREAU
. The castle of Montereau-faut-Yonne (Seine-et-Marne), at the confluence of the Seine
and Yonne rivers about 49 miles southeast of Paris, was a site of a settlement that already
existed when the Romans invaded. Eudes II of Blois built a wooden donjon there ca.
1015–20. A stone castle, completed by 1228, replaced this construction and was held in
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