Gautier d'Arras

Gautier d'Arras (died c. 1185, Arras) was a Flemish or French trouvère.

Gautier appears to have been a knight of Arras who between 1160 and 1170 held many important fiefs of St. Vaast's Abbey and between 1166 and 1185 was an official at the court of Count Philip I of Flanders.

An apparent will is known dating from 1185, in which his wife Agnes and oldest son Roger are named.

[1] Eracle, the hero of which becomes emperor of Constantinople as Heraclius, is purely a roman d'aventures and enjoyed great popularity.

His second romance, Ille et Galeron, dedicated to Empress Beatrice, treats of a similar situation to that outlined in the lay of Eliduc by Marie de France.