Raoul de Soissons

Raoul de Soissons (even Ralph or Rudolf, * to 1210/15, † 1270 in Tunis ) was Lord of Coeuvres in Picardy. He participated in three crusades and became known as Trouvère a name.

He was the second son of Count Raoul I of Soissons and his second wife Yolande.

In 1232 he was given dominion Coeuvres fief.

1239 he joined the crusade of the barons. Count Theobald IV of Champagne, King of Navarre, appreciate and encouraged Raoul particular as Trouvère; military were neither Raoul nor Theobald especially in appearance.

On the return trip he made in the Kingdom of Cyprus station, where he married in 1241 Alice of Champagne ( † 1246 ). Alice was the mother of the King of Cyprus, Associate throne in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and a cousin of Count Theobald. With it, he was in 1243, after the fall of the imperial governor ( Filangieri brothers ), with the reign of the kingdom of Jerusalem entrusted ( in Acre ), since the king come of age Konrad II of Jerusalem itself did not appear in the kingdom. A little later he separated from Alice and returned to France.

There he joined the Sixth Crusade in 1248 under King Louis the Saints to Egypt. The last time he is mentioned as participants in the Seventh Crusade in 1270, where he probably died at the siege of Tunis.

He is regarded as the author of at least seven courtly novels and some cabaret singer. Between 1230 and 1260 some works of a certain Thierri ( Dietrich ) of Soissons, which is possible but disputed whether this is identical with Raoul emerged.