Blondel, a troubadour of the 12th century; a favourite of Richard Coeur de Lion, who, it is said, discovered the place of Richard's imprisonment in Austria by singing the first part of a love-song which Richard and he had composed together, and by the voice of Richard in responding to the strain.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Blomfield * Blondin, Charles