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==Life== Little is known of his life, but he seems to have been from [[Troyes]] or at least intimately connected with it. Between 1160 and 1172 he served (perhaps as herald-at-arms, as [[Gaston Paris]] speculated) at the court of his patroness [[Marie of France, Countess of Champagne]], daughter of [[Louis VII of France|King Louis VII]] and [[Eleanor of Aquitaine]], who married [[Henry I, Count of Champagne|Count Henry I of Champagne]] in 1164. Later, he served the court of [[Philip I, Count of Flanders|Philippe d'Alsace, Count of Flanders]].<ref name="gut">{{cite web|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/dtroy10.txt|title=Four Arthurian Romances|website= gutenberg.org|access-date=March 29, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://agora.qc.ca/dossiers/Chretien_de_Troyes|title=Chrétien de Troyes|website=agora.qc.ca|access-date=January 20, 2019}}</ref><ref name="kdu">{{cite web|url=https://www.princeton.edu/~lancelot/romance.html|title=Background Information on Chrétien de Troyes's Le Chevalier de la Charrette|website=princeton.edu|access-date=January 20, 2019}}</ref> As proposed by [[Urban T. Holmes III]], Chrétien's name, meaning literally "Christian from Troyes", might be a [[pen name]] moniker of a Jewish convert from Judaism to Christianity, also known as ''Crestien li Gois''.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Q1qe21qLQoC&pg=PA205 | title=Chretien de Troyes and the Dawn of Arthurian Romance | isbn=9780786457946 | last1=Farina | first1=William | date=10 January 2014 | publisher=McFarland }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/460649 | jstor=460649 | title=The Motivation of Perceval and the Authorship of Philomena | last1=Levy | first1=Raphael | journal=PMLA | year=1956 | volume=71 | issue=4 | pages=853–862 | doi=10.2307/460649 | s2cid=164127302 }}</ref>
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