Adenet Le Roi

Adenet Le Roi (d. c.1300). Minstrel working at the courts of Henri III, duke of Brabant, 1261, and then Gui de Dampierre, count of Flanders. He was author of three chansons de geste: Berte aus grans piés, the story of Charlemagne's mother, based on the persecuted-wife motif; Beuvon de Commarchis, a reworking of Le Siège de Barbastre from the Cycle de Guillaume; and Les Enfances Ogier, a courtly adaptation of the first episodes of La Chevalerie Ogier de Danemark [see Ogier Le Danois]. He also composed a long exotic romance, Cleomadés, in which the hero, son of the king of Spain, wins his bride, daughter of the duke of Tuscany, with the aid of a mechanical flying horse.

[Philip Bennett]