Ambrose d’Évreux

French poet
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Flourished:
c. 1190
Flourished:
c.1201 - 1250

Ambrose d’Évreux (flourished c. 1190) was a Norman poet and chronicler, who accompanied Richard I of England as a minstrel on the Third Crusade. Nothing more is known of him than that he was probably a native of Évreux and was a noncombatant making the pilgrimage to Jerusalem. His account of the Crusade is preserved in the Estoire de la guerre sainte (“History of the Holy War”), a poem of over 12,000 lines extant in an Anglo-Norman manuscript, but the Estoire is only an adaptation of Ambrose’s work. The original poem was used by Richard, a canon of Holy Trinity, ...(100 of 125 words)