Book IX

. relates that Kiot sought Britain, France, and Ireland were

for records of the Grail race in all brought into close connection the chronicles of Britain, France, under Henry Fitz-Empress, Count of and Ireland, and found the history Anjou, Duke of Normandy, and King at last in the chronicle of Anjou. of England, the husband of Eleanor of Provence and Aquitaine, who conquered Ireland in 1172.

The peculiar presentment of the Knights of the Grail as Templars (Templeisen), having their residence in a castle surrounded by a forest, recalls the fact that a close connection between the Order of Templars and the House of Anjou had existed for some time previous to the date of this poem, a tax for the benefit of the Order having been imposed on all his dominions by Fulk V. on his return from his first pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1120. A community of Knights Templars was founded by Henry Fitz-Empress fifty years later at Vaubourg, in the forest of Roumare which became very famous. (The location of Monsalväsch in the Pyrenees hardly seems to accord with the indications of the poem, which make it only thirty-six hours' ride from Nantes.)

Finally, the name of the poet claimed by Wolfram as his authority, Kiot=Guiot=Guy, is distinctly Angevin, the hereditary Angevin princely names being Fulk, Geoffrey, and Guy.

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GENEALOGICAL TABLE.

MAZADAN. Lassalies. Addanz. Gandein m. Schoettè. Galoes. Gamuret m. (1) Belakané. Feirefis. Gamuret m. (2) Herzeleide. PARZIVAL. Fleurdamur m. Kingrisein. Vergulacht. Antikonie. Lamire m. Ither of Gaheviess. Brickus. Daughter unnamed. Ither of Gaheviess. Uther Pendragon m. Arnivè. Arthur m. Guinevere. Ilinot. Sangivè m. Lot of Norway. Gawain m. Orgeluse. Beaucorps. Surdamour m. Alexander. Kondrie m. Lischois. Itonjè m. Gramoflanz.

PARENTS UNKNOWN. Gurnemanz, wife unnamed. Schenteflur. Count Laskoit. Gurzgrei m. Mahaut. Schionatulander. Gandelus. Liassé. Daughter unnamed, m. King Tampentaire. Kondwiramur m. PARZIVAL.

GRAIL KINGS.

Titurel. Frimutel. Anfortas. Trevrezent. Schoysiane m. [A]Kiot of Katelangen. Siguné. Herzeleide m. (1) Kastis. Herzeleide m. (2) Gamuret. PARZIVAL m. Kondwiramur. Kardeiss. Lohengrin m. Duchess of Brabant. Repanse de Schoie m. Feirefis. Prester John.

[A] Kiot is brother to King Tampentaire, cf.