Colwell, Tania2015-12-100304-4181http://hdl.handle.net/1885/69535In 1400 Guillaume l'Archevêque, the lord of Parthenay, commissioned the Roman de Parthenay (RP), a poetic ancestral romance affirming his family's descent from Mélusine, the mythic fairy-serpentine matriarch of the Poitevin Lusignan dynasty. PrevailingKeywords: Coudrette; Guillaume l'Archevêque; Lusignan; Mélusine; Patronage; Roman de Parthenay201110.1016/j.jmedhist.2011.02.0042016-02-24