Dame de Gosnai (fl. 1200s CE) was a woman trouvère.[1][2] She was a member of the Puy d'Arras, a society dedicated to competitions between courtly trouvères in 13th century Arras (in modern-day France).[3][4][5]
Her most famous work is a jeu-parti (a composition, usually in the form of a debate, written by two trouvères as interlocutors, who compose alternating verses) known "Dame de Gosnai, gardez".[6][7] Her interlocutor was the trouvère Gillebert de Berneville.[7]
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Berger, Roger (1981). Littérature et société arrageoises au XIIIe siècle: Les chansons et dits artésiens. Arras: Commission Départementale des Monuments Historiques du Pas-de-Calais.
Doss-Quinby, Eglal; Joan Tasker Grimbert; Wendy Pfeffer; Elizabeth Aubrey (2001). Songs of the Women Trouvères. New Haven: Yale UP. ISBN0-300-08413-7.