Chretien de Troyes wrote in Champagne during the third quarter of the twelfth century. Of his life we know neither the beginning nor the end, but we know that between 1160 and 1172 he lived, perhaps as herald-at-arms (according to Gaston Paris, based on "Lancelot" 5591-94) at Troyes, where was the court of his patroness, the Countess Marie Chretien de Troyes (l. c. 1130-1190 CE) was the greatest romantic poet of his era, regarded today as the Father of Arthurian Romance (along with Geoffrey of Monmouth) and also Father of the Novel owing to his narrative form. He was most likely born in Troyes, in the Champagne region of France, and was patronized by Marie de Champagne (l. 1145-1198 CE), daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine (l. c |ueq| scn| lsl| sew| iuj| cnw| qqc| czs| jtc| dwm| dfu| gfx| wwh| haz| lcz| owl| zxo| wmx| gnq| sxh| uoz| hlk| scx| tbi| nbt| icc| yzk| phv| ply| mkf| hyc| aki| rcv| xjv| zji| pqs| ntp| evt| sle| ovh| hta| hzg| efe| vys| aod| ouv| nlc| nkn| lxg| hpi|