GAUTIER  D'

ARRAS, French trouvere, flourished in the second half of the 12th century . Nothing is known of his biography except what may be gleaned from his works . He dedicated his romance of Eracle to Theobald V., count of Blois (d . 1191); among his other patrons were Marie, countess of Champagne, daughter of Louis VII. and Eleanor of Guienne and Baldwin IV., count of Hainaut . Eracle, the hero of which becomes emperor of Constantinople as Heraclius, is purely a roman d'aventures and enjoyed great popularity . His second romance, Ille et Galeron, dedicated to Beatrix, the second wife of Frederick Barbarossa, treats of a similar situation to that outlined in the lay of " Eliduc " by Marie de France . See the -Euvres de Gautier d'Arras, ed . E . Loseth (2 vols., Paris, 1890); Hist. litt. de la France, vol. xxii . (1852); A . Dinaux, Les Trouveres (1833-1843), vol. iii .