Huon de Méry

He seems to have been a Norman who took part in the wars against Pierre Mauclerc, Duke of Brittany, during the minority of Louis IX (1232–1235).

God's troops are made up of personified Virtues, archangels, and Arthurian knights.

[4] While Huon introduces courtly figures into the conventional battle of Vices and Virtues, love is not the poem's primary preoccupation.

[5] During the battle, the narrator is wounded in the eye by Cupid's arrow and seeks refuge in a monastery.

[6] Huon self-consciously acknowledges literary precedent, and views the Arthurian world as bygone and thoroughly explored by his poetic masters.

First page of the Tournoiemenz in the manuscript Bodleian , Douce 308. The historiated initial shows Huon at work on his story.