Adenet, le Roi, active 13th century

LC control no.	n 83181038
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PQ1413
Personal name heading	Adenet, le Roi, active 13th century *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Adam, le Roi, active 13th century Adenès, le Roi, active 13th century Adenés, li Rois, active 13th century Adenet le Roi Adenet, le Roi, 13th cent.
Beginning date	12
Found in	His Berte as grans piés, 1982: t.p. (Adenet le Roi) p. 13 (Principal variants of his name: Adam le Roi, Adenès le Roi) p. 19 (Adenet le Roi the accepted form in modern French; 1297 the last clear reference to his being alive; d. of b. not known, possibly around 1240) LC data base, 8-6-84 (hdg.: Adenet le Roi; no usage) Dict. des lettres franç., le Moyen Age, 1954 (Adenet le Roi) Bib. nat. (hdg.: Adenet le Roi; usage: Adenés li Rois) Adenet, le Roi, active 13th century. Bertha of the big foot (Berte as grans piés), 2013: CIP galley introd. (his exact birth and death dates are unknown; he was taught to be a minstrel by Duke Henri III of Brabant, at whose court he apparently grew up; after Henri died, Adenet remained with his sons, but by 1270 was a minstrel at the Flanders court of Gui de Dampierre; Adenet served Gui for thirty years; Adenet's title le roi indicates that he was master of diversions, head of the other minstrels; Gui died in 1304 and the last reference to Adenet in household records is in 1297)