Andrieu Contredit wrote mostly grand chants, but also a pastourelle, a lai, and a jeu-parti with Guillaume li Vinier.
Andrieu is probably the Andreas Contredit, miles ministerellus, crucesignatus who in 1239, according to French royal documents, joined the Crusade of Theobald I of Navarre as a knight and minstrel.
4 and 12, and in the second strophe of no.18), a title which some have interpreted as denoting nobility, although Nelson notes it is often used by clerics and bourgeois.
[3] His blason once decorated the start of his author collection in chansonnier TrouvM, but the manuscript is damaged in this place and the image has been lost.
Andrieu's music is relatively varied, for the chansons it is often pedes cum cauda or bar form, or a modified version thereof.