Gace Brulé

He owned land in Groslière and had dealings with the Knights Templar, and received a gift from the future Louis VIII.

It has generally been asserted that he taught Theobald IV of Champagne the art of verse, an assumption which is based on a statement in the Chroniques de Saint-Denis: "Si l'est entre lui [Theobald] et Gace Brulé les plus belles chançons et les plus delitables et melodieuses qui onque fussent ales."

A deed dated 1212 attests a contract between Gatho Bruslé (Gace Ernie) and the Templars for a piece of land in Dreux.

[1] See Gédéon Busken Huet, Chansons de Gace Brulé, edited for the Société des anciens textes français (1902), with an exhaustive introduction.

Dante quotes a song by Gace, Ire d'amor qui en mon over repaire, which he attributes erroneously to Thibaut of Champagne (De vulgari eloquentia, p. 151, ed.