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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 French. He is also referred to as Philippus Galtherus in Latin , Philippus Gualtherus de Castellione, or Gualtherus, Gualterus de Insulis, Walter de Châtillon. Gautier studied in Reims with Stéphane de Beauvais and in Paris. Around 1160 Gautier moved to Châtillon, probably Châtillon-sur-Marne, because it was quite close to Reims where most of the poet's career took place. He directed a school there and published his first works, generally of a satirical nature. Their success brought him to the attention of the Archbishop of Reims , then Henry I , who perfected his rhetoric and appointed him Chancellor in 1176. There followed a stay in Bologna, where he acquired his knowledge of civil law and in canon law. He wrote a series of poems in Latin, in the style of the goliards of his time, which would reemerge in those of Carmina Burana . Between 1178 and 1182 , he wrote L'Alexandréide , the title of which derives according to the usage of the time, from the beginning of his first verse, Gesta ducis Macedum . It is a long heroic poem in hexameter verse taken sometimes from the history of Quinte-Curce and sometimes from that of Alexander the Great , and dedicated to Guillaume aux Blanches Mains (1135-1202), Archbishop of Reims . No doubt his memor

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