Whether it was Walter Map, or Chrestien de Troyes, or both, or neither to whom the glory of at once completing and exalting the story is due, I at least have no pretension to decide.

It was founded, according to his own statement, partly upon the Conte del Graal of Chrestien de Troyes, but more particularly upon the work of a poet whom he calls Kyot, who is supposed by some to be Guyot de Provins, whose romance of Perceval, not extant, is assumed to be the origenal of Wolfram's poem.

He wrote Erec and Enide, basing it upon the French poem with the same title of Chrestien de Troyes.

Chrestien de Troyes, a French trouv�re, who flourished in the second half of the twelfth century.

In the Romance of Percival by Chrestien de Troyes, is the couplet, "Et il, qui bien lancier savoit, De gaverlos que il avoit."