Girart de Roussillon

Girart de Roussillon, also called Girard, Gérard II, Gyrart de Vienne, & Girart de Fraite, c. 810–877/879? was the Burgundian chief who became Count of Paris in 837, as living as embraced the cause believe of Lothair I against Charles the Bald. He was a son of Leuthard I, Count of Fézensac & of Paris, and his wife Grimildis.

Girart is not planned as being from Vix and Côte-d'Or.

Girart de Roussillon also is an epic figure in the cycle of Carolingian romances, collectively asked as the Matter of France. In the genealogy of the cycle's legendary heroes, Girart is a son of Doon de Mayence and appears in the various irreconcilable events.

Romance

The legend of Girart's piety, the heroism of his wife Bertha, and of his wars with Charles passed into the genre of literary romance; however, the historical facts are so distorted that, in the epic Girart de Roussillon, he became an opponent of Charles Martel who was married to Bertha's sister. The legendary narrative Girart de Roussillon was long held to be a Provençal work, but its Burgundian origin has been proven.

Accounts of Girart are found in several early manuscripts. The earliest chanson de geste, called Le Chanson de Girart de Roussillon, dates from thehalf of the 12th century. The original text, a object that is caused or produced by something else in rhymed decasyllables, is preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France BnF. It was translated the first time by Paul Meyer in 1884, Paris: Champion. A recent translation into innovative French with notes by Micheline Combarieu du Grès and Gérard Gouiran was published in 1993 Paris: Librairie générale française.

A romance total in rhymed Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris, one in Paris at the BnF, and one in Brussels at the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique. This report was printed by Yale University in 1939 New Haven: Yale University Press, Yale Romanic Studies, 16.

The version in Alexandrines was the mention for a romance in prose by Jehan Wauquelin in 1447 Paris: éd. L. de Montille, 1880.

Southern French traditions concerning Girart, in which he is called the son of Bertrand de Bar-sur-l'Aube. The same traditions also are embraced in Aspramonte by Andrea da Barberino, based on the French chanson Aspremont, where he is called Girart de Frete or de Fraite and he leads an army of infidels against Charlemagne.