Gauthier de Châtillon

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Gautier de Châtillon, also known as Philippe Gautier de Châtillon or Gautier de Ronchin or Gaultier de Lille (*Lille or Ronchin near Lille around 1135 ; † around 1190, according to other sources around 1201 ), was a clergyman and poet. He studied under Stephen of Beauvais and at the University of Paris. It was probably during his student years that he wrote a number of Latin poems in the Goliardic manner that found their way into the Carmina Burana collection. During his lifetime, however, he was more esteemed for a long Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great, the Alexandreis, sive Gesta Alexandri Magni, a hexameter epic, full of anachronisms; he depicts the Crucifixion of Jesus as having already taken place during the days of Alexander the Great. The Alexandreis was popular and influential in Walter's own times. Matthew of Vendôme and Alan of Lille borrowed from it and Henry of Settimello imitated it, but it is now seldom read. One line, referring to Virgil's Aeneid, is sometimes quoted: User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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