Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube (i.e. Bertrand from
Bar-sur-Aube
Bar-sur-Aube (, literally ''Bar on Aube'') is a commune and a sub-prefecture in the Aube department in the Grand Est region of France.
Surrounded by hills and Champagne vineyards, the city is traversed by the river Aube, from which it derive ...
) (end of the 12th century – early 13th century
[Hasenohr, 170.]) was an
Old French
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poet
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from the
Champagne region of
France
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who wrote a number of ''
chansons de geste''. He is the author of ''
Girard de Vienne'', and it is likely that he also wrote ''
Aymeri de Narbonne''.
The ''chansons de geste'' ''
Narbonnais'' and ''
Beuve de Hantone'' have also been attributed to him, but these attributions are contested.
At the beginning of ''Girart de Vienne'', the author describes himself as a "clerc" or
cleric
Clergy are formal leaders within established religions. Their roles and functions vary in different religious traditions, but usually involve presiding over specific rituals and teaching their religion's doctrines and practices. Some of the ter ...
.
No other biographical information is known about him.
References
* Geneviève Hasenohr and Michel Zink, eds. ''Dictionnaire des lettres françaises: Le Moyen Age''. Collection: La Pochothèque. Paris: Fayard, 1992.
*
Urban T. Holmes Jr.
Urban Tigner Holmes Jr. (July 13, 1900 – May 12, 1972) was an American scholar focusing on medieval literature and romance philology.
The son of Commander Urban T. Holmes, United States Navy, Holmes was born in Washington, D.C. In 1916, he enr ...
''A History of Old French Literature from the Origins to 1300''. New York: F.S. Crofts, 1938.
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12th-century births
13th-century deaths
People from Champagne (province)
12th-century French poets
13th-century French poets
French male poets