ADENES, ADENEZ or ADANS, surnamed Le Roi, French trouvere, was born in Brabant about 124o. He owed his education to the kindness of Henry III., duke of Brabant, and he remained in favour at court for some time after the death (1261) of his patron. In 1269 he entered the service of Guy de Dampierre, afterwards count of Flanders, probably as roi des menestrels, and followed him in the next year on the abortive crusade in Tunis. The expedition returned by way of Sicily and Italy, and Adenes left in his poems some very exact descriptions of the places through which he passed.
The poems written by Adenes are four : the Enfances Ogier, Berte aus grans pies, Beeves de Comarchis, and a long roman d'aventures, Cleomades, borrowed from Spanish and Moorish traditions brought into France by Blanche, daughter of Louis IX. Adenes probably died before the end of the 13th century.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.—The romances of Adenes were edited for the Bibliography.—The romances of Adenes were edited for the Academie Imperiale et Royale of Brussels by A. Scheler and A. van Hasselt in 1874; Berte was rendered into modern French by G. Hecq (1897) and by R. Perie (5900) ; Cleomades, by Le Chevalier de Chatelain (1859). See also the edition of Berte by Paulin Paris (1832) ; an article by the same writer in the Hist. Litt. de la France, vol. xx. p. 679-718 ; Leon Gautier, Les epopees francaises, vol. iii. etc.