Abstract
This essay stems from the recent discovery of the cantus firmus of the motetO Maria et Elizabethby Gilbert Banaster (d. 1487). The chant, which will be discussed in detail, is the respondRegnum mundi. Banaster's motet is known to the scholarly community on account of its unusual text, which concludes with a prayer for an unspecified king. It will be argued that Banaster choseRegnum mundias his cantus firmus on account of its thematic relevance to the motet text, and that in so doing he collaborated in the appropriation of devotional means to serve dynastic ends.
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