Taillefer

At the Battle of Hastings, Taillefer sang the Chanson de Roland at the English troops while juggling with his sword.

The story of Taillefer is told by Geoffrey Gaimar, Henry of Huntingdon, William of Malmesbury and in the Carmen de Hastingae Proelio.

The story was the subject of an 1816 ballad by the German poet Ludwig Uhland, set to music for soprano, tenor, baritone, eight-part chorus and orchestra by Richard Strauss in 1903, Op.

Taillefer embarked from the shore of Normandy where the Allies landed on D-Day in World War II.

IV, p. 237ff that the descendants of Taillefer included a local Baron of Oapenge, Kent, named Hanger Taylifer born circa 1256.