Cligès

This hero is not born until about line 2,380 of the romance bearing his name. With only threadbare connections to Arthur, Chrétien seems to have written his Cliges as a sort of anti-Tristan. D.D.R. Owen tells us in a note to his translation that a still-extant thirteenth century text, “Marques De Rome”, may preserve another version – also with hero named Cligés – of whatever main source Chrétien de Troyes followed.