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COLLE TREGETOUR. This appears to be the name of a famous English magician who worked in Orleans during the fourteenth century. A French manual of conversation, composed about 1396, mentions an Englishman named Colin T, famous for magic. J.F. Royster points out that this book has been attributed to another Englishman, M.T. Coyfurelly, and suggests that Colin T. may stand for "Collin Tregetour." Tregetour means "magician," and Orleans was a town famous for the study of magic.

Colle Tregetour carries a windmill under a walnut shell, HF III.1277-1281. This impossible action seems to suggest that he is a magician.

Colle is the shortened form of Nicholas.


La Maniere de language, ed. P. Meyer; Riverside Chaucer, ed. L. Benson, 987; J.F. Royster, "Chaucer's 'Colle Tregetour.'" SP 23 (1926): 380-384.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

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