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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 618,440 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Chrétien de Troyes is the 268th most popular writer (up from 284th in 2019), the 312th most popular biography from France (up from 322nd in 2019) and the 45th 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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  • 620k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Chrétien de Troyes ranks 268 out of 5,755Before him are Jaroslav Hašek, Alfonso X of Castile, Henry Miller, Carlo Goldoni, William Golding, and Jordanes. After him are Valmiki, Shams Tabrizi, Françoise Sagan, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Carl Spitteler, and Guillaume de Machaut.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1135, Chrétien de Troyes ranks 1After him are Léonin, Joachim of Fiore, Bernart de Ventadorn, Joscelin III, Count of Edessa, Inge I of Norway, Walter of Châtillon, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Judith of Thuringia, Herman IV, Margrave of Baden, and William I, Count of Boulogne. Among people deceased in 1185, Chrétien de Troyes ranks 4Before him are Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, Pope Lucius III, and Afonso I of Portugal. After him are Bhāskara II, Andronikos I Komnenos, Ibn Tufail, Emperor Antoku, Agnes of Courtenay, 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 312 out of 6,011Before him are Bernard Arnault (1949), Georges de La Tour (1593), Jean Baudrillard (1929), Édouard Daladier (1884), Frédéric Passy (1822), and Isabella of France (1295). After him are Fernand Braudel (1902), Raynald of Châtillon (1123), Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908), Françoise Sagan (1935), and Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Chrétien de Troyes ranks 45Before him are Pierre Corneille (1606), Maurice Leblanc (1864), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894), François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), Germaine de Staël (1766), and Frédéric Mistral (1830). After him are Françoise Sagan (1935), Guillaume de Machaut (1300), Paul Valéry (1871), Antonin Artaud (1896), Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), and Marguerite de Navarre (1492).