Chardo
Chardo may refer to: * Chardon de Croisilles, a French trouvère * Roman Catholic Kshatriya Roman Catholic Kshatriyas (also simply Cxatrias in Romi Konkani, Indo-Portuguese& Indian English) are a modern Christianised caste among Goan, Bombay East Indian, Mangalorean, Kudali& Karwari Catholics. They are the patrilineal descendants of ...

Chardon De Croisilles
Chardon de Croisilles or de Reims (''fl''. 1220–45) was an Old French trouvère and possibly an Occitan troubadour. He was probably from Croisilles, but perhaps Reims. He is associated with the school of trouvères in and around Arras. Chardon wrote four ''chansons d'amour'', two ''jeux partis'', and one '' partimen''. In two of his ''chansons'' Chardon represented Marguerite de Bourbon, the wife (from 1232) of Theobald I of Navarre, in acrostics. Based on this and another internal reference to the castle of Monreal near Pamplona, where Theobald was staying in 1237, it is thought that Chardon joined Theobald's Crusade, which left for the Holy Land in 1237. Henry II of Bar, who adjudicated one of Chardon's ''jeux partis'', also went on Crusade with Theobald. All Chardon's French poems have the form ABABX: the ''chansons'' are decasyllabic, the ''jeux partis'' octosyllabic. His only surviving melodies, for ''Mar vit raison covoite trop haut'' and ''Rose ne lis ne me don ...
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