TROPHEE. This name has not been identified. Glosses in the margins of the Ellesmere and Hengwrt manuscripts carry the notation: ille vates Chaldeorum Tropheus, "Tropheus was a Chaldean priest." The name thus appears to have been unknown to fifteenth-century scribes. F. Tupper suggests that Trophee is another name for Guido de Columnis, who describes the West Gates of the world, Historia destructionis Troiae I. G.L. Kittredge suggests that "tropaea" or "tropea," the common noun for "pillar," came to be thought the name of an author or a book.

The Monk refers his listeners to Trophee, who has written that Hercules set pillars at both ends of the world, MkT 2116-2118. [Ercules]

Trophee occurs in final rhyming position, MkT 2117.