Editing Guillaume de Machaut (section)

==Legacy==
When he died in 1377, other composers such as [[F. Andrieu]] wrote elegies lamenting his death.

Machaut's poetry had a direct effect on the works of [[Eustache Deschamps]], [[Jean Froissart]], [[Christine de Pizan]], [[René d'Anjou]] and [[Geoffrey Chaucer]], among many others.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}   There exists the hypothetical (though improbable) possibility that Chaucer and Machaut could have met when Chaucer was taken prisoner near Reims in 1359, or in [[Calais]] in 1360, with both poets on official business for the ratification of the [[Treaty of Brétigny]] (Machaut with his patron Jean de Berry, who was departing for England, and Chaucer as a messenger to [[Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence|Prince Lionel]]).{{sfn|Hanly|2008|pp=153–154}}

According to food historian William Woys Weaver, fourteenth century nobles at the French-speaking [[House of Lusignan|Lusignan]] court in [[Nicosia]], [[Cyprus]], often listened to narrations of Machaut's ''Prise d’Alexandrie'' for entertainment during royal banquets. Tales like Machaut's, about heroic [[Crusades|Crusader]] figures, reinforced the self-image that Lusignan courtiers cultivated as long-distance claimants to [[Jerusalem]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Weaver|first=William Woys|title=In the Presence of Power: Court and Performance in the Pre-Modern Middle East|publisher=NYU Press|year=2017|editor-last=Pomeranz|editor-first=Maurice A.|location=New York|pages=179–95|chapter=The Court Cuisine of Medieval Cyprus: Food as Table Theater|editor-last2=Vitz|editor-first2=Evelyn Birge}}</ref>