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Chrétien de Troyes

1135 - 1185

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Chrétien de Troyes (Modern French: [kʁetjɛ̃ də tʁwa]; Old French: Crestien de Troies [kresˈtjẽn də ˈtrojəs]; fl. c. 1160–1191) was a French poet and trouvère known for his writing on Arthurian subjects such as Gawain, Lancelot, Perceval and the Holy Grail. Chrétien's chivalric romances, including Erec and Enide, Lancelot, Perceval and Yvain, represent some of the best-regarded works of medieval literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Chrétien de Troyes is the 306th most popular writer (down from 305th in 2019), the 346th most popular biography from France (down from 337th in 2019) and the 51st most popular French Writer.

Chrétien de Troyes is most famous for writing the first Arthurian romance, "Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart."

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Chrétien de Troyes ranks 306 out of 7,302. Before him are Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Guillaume de Machaut, Arthur Miller, Shams Tabrizi, Czesław Miłosz, and Alberto Moravia. After him are Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Robert Musil, Claudius Aelianus, J. M. G. Le Clézio, J. M. Coetzee, and Ismail Kadare.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1135, Chrétien de Troyes ranks 1. After him are Inge I of Norway, Léonin, Joachim of Fiore, Bernart de Ventadorn, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Walter of Châtillon, Herman IV, Margrave of Baden, Judith of Thuringia, William of the White Hands, William I, Count of Boulogne, and Joscelin III, Count of Edessa. Among people deceased in 1185, Chrétien de Troyes ranks 4. Before him are Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, Pope Lucius III, and Afonso I of Portugal. After him are Ibn Tufail, Andronikos I Komnenos, Bhāskara II, Agnes of Courtenay, Emperor Antoku, Manuel Komnenos, Andronikos Doukas Angelos, and John Kinnamos.

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In France

Among people born in France, Chrétien de Troyes ranks 346 out of 6,770. Before him are Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1645), Pope Stephen IX (1020), Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786), Adolphe Thiers (1797), Désirée Clary (1777), and Constantine II (316). After him are Sophie Germain (1776), Olivier Messiaen (1908), Éliphas Lévi (1810), Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor (1275), J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), and William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Chrétien de Troyes ranks 51. Before him are Germaine de Staël (1766), Pierre Corneille (1606), Patrick Modiano (1945), Alphonse Daudet (1840), François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), and Guillaume de Machaut (1300). After him are J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), Antonin Artaud (1896), Héloïse (1101), François Mauriac (1885), and Henri Charrière (1906).

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