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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chrétien de Troyes has received more than 670,578 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Chrétien de Troyes is the 305th most popular writer (down from 268th in 2019), the 337th most popular biography from France (down from 312th in 2019) and the 54th 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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  • 670k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Chrétien de Troyes ranks 305 out of 7,302. Before him are Claude Simon, Lucan, Elfriede Jelinek, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Carlos Castaneda, and Pierre Beaumarchais. After him are Gabriele D'Annunzio, Appian, Antonin Artaud, Françoise Sagan, Ernst Jünger, and C. S. Lewis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1135, Chrétien de Troyes ranks 1. After him are Joachim of Fiore, Léonin, Bernart de Ventadorn, Joscelin III, Count of Edessa, Inge I of Norway, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Walter of Châtillon, Judith of Thuringia, Herman IV, Margrave of Baden, William of the White Hands, and William I, Count of Boulogne. 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, Bhāskara II, Andronikos I Komnenos, Agnes of Courtenay, Emperor Antoku, Richeza of Poland, Queen of Castile, John Kinnamos, and Beatrice of Rethel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Chrétien de Troyes ranks 337 out of 6,770. Before him are Luc Montagnier (1932), Louis VI of France (1081), François Couperin (1668), Sophie Germain (1776), Nadar (1820), and Pierre Beaumarchais (1732). After him are Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan (1640), Robert I, Duke of Normandy (1010), Charles Messier (1730), Louis de Broglie (1892), Claude Bernard (1813), and John the Fearless (1371).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Chrétien de Troyes ranks 54. Before him are Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), Alphonse Daudet (1840), Paul Valéry (1871), Colette (1873), and Pierre Beaumarchais (1732). After him are Antonin Artaud (1896), Françoise Sagan (1935), Roger Martin du Gard (1881), Guillaume de Machaut (1300), Henri Charrière (1906), and Ève Curie (1904).

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