Coucy, RAOUL, CASTELLAN DE

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 518

Coucy, RAOUL, CASTELLAN DE, was a French court poet or Trouvère (q.v.) of the 12th century, to whom twenty-three poems are ascribed. He was named after the Château de Coucy, near Laon. His heart was unwittingly eaten by his mistress through the device of her jealous husband.

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