Dame Maroie or Maroie de Dregnau/Dergnau de Lille (fl. 13th century) was a trouvère from Arras, in Artois, France.
She was identified as the Maroie de Dregnau de LillePetersen Dyggve 176. from whom a single strophe of a single chanson remains, "Mout m'abelist quant je voi revenir" (in a typical trouvère form, ABABCDE), along with its music.Manuscript F-Pn f.f. 844, f.181. Coldwell.Doss-Quinby 27.
She debates Dame Margot in a jeu parti, or debate song, "Je vous pri, dame Maroie." This song survives in two manuscripts,F-AS MS 657, f.150v-151r and V-CVbav Reg. MS 1490, f.140r which each give separate and unrelated melodies.Coldwell. Dame Maroie is the addressee in a grand chant by Andrieu Contredit d'Arras.
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