Rudolf von Ems

He is thought to have died whilst accompanying King Conrad IV on his advance into Italy.

He himself describes Gottfried von Strassburg as his ideal; this is quite credible, as he sometimes quotes literally from "Tristan".

He also adopted Gottfried's technique of making literary excursuses in which he names works of contemporaries and of his own.

In 21,000 verses the upbringing and battles of Alexander are depicted, in which the hero is a model of knightly virtue.

It narrates, as an addition to the Bible, the Historia scholastica of Petrus Comestor and the Pantheon of Godfrey of Viterbo, the history of the world from the creation up to the death of King Solomon, with the added motive of legitimizing the rule of the Hohenstaufen dynasty.