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The 16 pages that link to Chrétien de Troyes, each with the reason it gives.

• Courtly loveRelated: His romances carried ideals of love and service from lyric poetry into narrative.

• Arthurian legendRelated: His works introduced influential romance plots, including the Grail story.

• Chivalric romanceRelated: His works helped define the romance’s courtly heroes, quests, and interlaced plots.

• Eleanor of AquitaineRelated: His career was associated with courts connected to Eleanor’s family, especially that of her daughter Marie.

• LancelotRelated: His poem made Lancelot a central Arthurian hero and shaped his love story with Guinevere.

• Matter of BritainRelated: His works developed the courtly romance and introduced major quest narratives.

• Arthurian romanceRelated: His verse romances introduced influential quests and characters into Arthurian literature.

• GuinevereRelated: His Lancelot romance made Guinevere central to a story of forbidden love and rescue.

• Wolfram von EschenbachRelated: His unfinished Perceval supplied the principal narrative source for Parzival.

• Lancelot-Grail CycleRelated: His unfinished Grail romance helped make the Grail a central Arthurian subject.

• Morgan le FayRelated: His romances develop Morgan’s healing abilities and connect her with Arthurian court culture.

• Gottfried von StrassburgRelated: His literary innovations form part of the romance tradition Gottfried engaged.