Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart

...It is certain that the fictional hero Lancelot existed-possibly in Wales-before the twelfth century when Chretien de Troyes wrote The Knight of the Cart . In that French verse romance, Lancelot is already in love with Queen Guenevere, and is on...

In this article: Lancelot, Galehaut, Prose Lancelot, Arthur, King Arthur, Lady of the Lake, and The Knight of the Cart

...of Sir Calogrenant in Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, and he tricks Arthur into allowing him to try to save Guinevere from Maleagant in Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, which ends in his humiliating defeat. In Perceval, the Story of the...

In this article: Arthur, Arthur, Sir Kay, Bedivere, Perceval, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Welsh literature, and The Sword in the Stone

The earliest surviving version of this episode names the abductor Melwas. Maleagant debuts in Chretien de Troyes' French romance Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, where he is said to be the son of King Bagdemagus, ruler of the otherworldly...

In this article: Guinevere, Lancelot, Arthur, Gildas, King Arthur, Chretien de Troyes, Derivative, Mordred, and Lancelot-Grail

...was influenced by the changing face of secular and canonical law in the twelfth century. This is particularly relevant for his Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart which makes repeated use of the customary law prevalent in Chretien's...

In this article: Jean Chretien, Chretien de Troyes, Yvain, Lancelot, Erec, Oxford University, Perceval, and Peredur

Yvain, the Knight of the Lion () is a romance by Chretien de Troyes. It was probably written in the 1170s simultaneously with Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, and includes several references to the action in that poem. The main character,...

In this article: Calogrenant, Yvain, Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, Gawain, Saint Mungo, Hartmann von Aue, Lot of Lothian, and Chretien de Troyes

...12th century, presumably at the court of Marie de Champagne. He finished Chretien's romance Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart after Chretien abandoned it for unknown reasons. Godefroi was presumably born in the village of Leigni, now called...

In this article: Jean Chretien, Lancelot, Godefroi de Leigni, Marie de Champagne, Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, Guinevere, Chretien de Troyes, and Namur

Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart () is an Old French poem by Chretien de Troyes. Chretien probably composed the work (in the 1170s) at the same time as or slightly before writing Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, which refers to the action in...

In this article: Jean Chretien, Lancelot, Gaston Paris, Guinevere, Champagne, Yvain, Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, Lancelot-Grail Cycle, and Ulrich von Zatzikhoven

...the work is Sir Lancelot , whose story had also been told a little earlier by Chretien de Troyes in his Le Chevalier de la Charette (Knight of the Cart). However, the content of Ulrich's Lancelot romance differs considerably from that of...

In this article: Ulrich von Zatzikhoven, Lancelot, Richard the Lionheart, Counts of Toggenburg, Knight of the Cart, Hartmann von Aue, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Chretien de Troyes, and Jean Chretien

Among his many edited and translated publications are Poems and Prose from the Old English, and Chretien de Troyes' Cliges, Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, Perceval, the Story of the Grail, Erec and Enide, and Yvain, the...

In this article: Burton Raffel, Miguel de Cervantes, Denver, Colorado, Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, Perceval, the Story of the Grail, Nibelungenlied, Erec and Enide, Cliges, and Horace

...Pant (Ban) and his upbringing by a water fay , that is similar to that contained in the Prose Lancelot and mentioned in Chretien de Troyes' Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, but it deviates very strikingly from the familiar version of...

In this article: Lancelot, Ulrich von Zatzikhoven, Guinevere, Chretien de Troyes, Lady of the Lake, Prose Lancelot, Erec and Enide, Hartmann von Aue, and Ban