Chrétien de Troyes 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
Engraving considered to be a representation of Chrétien de Troyes in his work studio (1530)
Parzival is a medieval chivalric romance by the poet and knight Wolfram von Eschenbach in Middle High German. The poem, commonly dated to the first quarter of the 13th century, centers on the Arthuria
Illumination, ca. 1440, from the workshop of Diebold Lauber [de]