Walter of Bibbesworth

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Bibbsworth Hall: the farmhouse (built after Walter's time)

Walter of Bibbesworth (1235–1270) was an

Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln. In the poem Walter, about to depart for Palestine, teases Henry for staying at home for the love of a certain woman. In fact the young Henry de Lacy, "recently married and with heavy responsibilities at home",[2] did not take part in the Ninth Crusade. Walter went and returned.[3] He was buried early in Edward I's reign at Little Dunmow in Essex.[3][4]

Fields near Bibbsworth Hall, Hertfordshire

Apart from the tençon Walter is best known for a longer poem which in early manuscripts is called

Virgin Mary, though the first of these is more likely to be the work of Nicole Bozon.[6]

Works

  • Le Tretiz ("The Treatise")
  • "De bone femme la bounté" (attribution doubtful)
  • "Amours m'ount si enchaunté"
  • "La Pleinte"

References

  1. ^ Owen (1929) p. 24
  2. ^ Dalby (2012) p. 15
  3. ^ a b Martin, Charles Trice (1885). "Bibelesworth, Walter de" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 04. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  4. ^ Hunt (2004)
  5. ^ Rothwell (2009); Dalby (2012)
  6. ^ Hinton, Thomas (2019). "Language, Morality and Wordplay in Thirteenth-Century Anglo-French: The Poetry of Walter de Bibbesworth". New Medieval Literatures. 19: 106–107.

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