Robert de Reins La Chievre

He is among those trouvères, like Richard de Fournival, who are associated with the early development of the motet and who may be more numerous than previously believed.

[1] Robert may have belonged to the La Chievre family documented in Reims in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

This attribution led Wilhelm Mann to conclude that he was active before 1300, though other scholars have argued on linguistic grounds that he must have been writing later.

Nine songs are attributed to Robert and "no fewer than four have their first stanza enhanced by a liturgical tenor in a motet appearing anonymously in a polyphonic source".

[4] The refrains are numbered from the catalogue of Nico van den Boogaard.