The Trésorier de Lille was a 13th-century trouvère from Lille. He is sometimes thought to be the same person as the Trésorier d'Aire.
Identity is not a name but a title meaning "treasurer". Arthur Dinaux identified the Trésorier de Lille with the trouvère Pierre le Borgne. He was followed by Henri Pajot and tentatively by Robert Linker. Auguste Scheler rejected the identification.
Guillaume d'Haverskerque, a son of Bauduin, lord of Haverskerque, is the most likely candidate for the trouvère. Guillaume married a daughter of the famous crusader Elinard, , but later entered the church. He is recorded as treasurer of the collegiate church of between February 1252 and March 1257. He was the treasurer of Saint-Pierre de Lille in 1270–1271 and then provost of Aire beginning in 1273 or 1274. He died between 1282 and 1285.
Works He left behind wo songs, both :
Haute honor d'un commandement, preserved in chansonniers K, N, P and X Joie ne guerredons d'amours, preserved in chansonniers K, M, N, P, T and X,. In M, it is attributed to Guiot de Dijon and in T to Chrétien de Troyes. translated into French by Petit
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