Jeu-parti

The jeu-parti (plural jeux-partis, also known as parture) is a genre of French lyric poetry composed between two trouvères.

The genre also flourished in Lorraine, with surviving examples by Thibaut II of Bar and Roland of Reims.

Judges of jeux-partis range in social class from high-born aristocrats, such as Edward I of England and Charles I of Anjou, to merchants, clerics, and mysterious figures named only by a nickname.

[2] Aristocratic female judges include the sisters Jeanne and Mahaut d'Aspremont (respectively the Countess of Leiningen and the Dame de Commercy), Jeanne de Fouencamp, who may have been associated with the Puy d'Arras, and Demisele Oede, also associated with the Puy, who was the wife of a wealthy Artesian financier and appears as the judge of five jeux-partis.

[4] These often relate to medieval life in the court or the city, referring to hunting, money or the market place.