Author:Chrétien de Troyes

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Chrétien de Troyes (1135–1190)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, quotes. Chrétien de Troyes was a French poet and trouvère who flourished in the late 12th century. Little is known of his life, but he seems to have been from Troyes, or at least intimately connected with it, and between 1160 and 1181 he served at the court of his patroness Countess Marie de Champagne, daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine, perhaps as herald-at-arms (as Gaston Paris speculated). His work on Arthurian subjects represents some of the best of medieval literature.

Works

Poems

• Erec and Enide c. 1170
• Cligès c. 1176
• Yvain, the Knight of the Lion between 1177 and 1181.
• Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart between 1177 and 1181.
• Perceval, the Story of the Grail between 1181 and 1190, left unfinished.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.