Lohengrin postcard around 1900 - unknown artist

Helias, Brabant (16th century)

The story of the Knight of the Swan, or Swan Knight, is a medieval tale about a mysterious rescuer who comes in a swan-drawn boat to defend a damsel, his only condition being that he must never be asked his name. The Duchy of Brabant was a historical region in the Low Countries. Swans are Birds of the family Anatidae, which also includes geese and Ducks Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in

Today, the story is probably best known as that of Lohengrin, son of the Grail knight Percival. Lohengrin is a character in some German Arthurian literature The son of Parzival (Percival he is a knight of the Holy Grail sent in a According to Christian mythology, the Holy Grail was the dish plate or cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper, said to possess miraculous powers Percival or Perceval is one of King Arthur 's legendary Knights of the Round Table. The Lohengrin version forms the plot of Richard Wagner's opera of that name, which is based on the medieval German romance Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach. Lohengrin is a romantic Opera (or music drama in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner. Parzival is a major medieval German Epic poem attributed to the poet Wolfram von Eschenbach, written in the Middle High German

However, the Knight of the Swan tale was originally attached to the family of Godfrey of Bouillon, first conqueror of Jerusalem in 1099, in the French chansons de geste known as the "Crusade cycle". Godfrey of Bouillon (c 1060 Boulogne-sur-Mer &ndash 18 July 1100, Jerusalem) was a medieval knight who was a leader of the First This article is about the Christian kingdom For the history of the city see History of Jerusalem The Kingdom of Jerusalem was a Christian The chansons de geste, Old French for "songs of Heroic deeds lineages" are the epic poems that appear at the dawn of French literature The Crusade cycle is an Old French cycle of Chansons de geste concerning the First Crusade and its aftermath ^[1]

The second version of this tale is thought to have been written by the Norman trouvère Jean Renart. Trouvère ( MWCD: /trü'ver trü'vər/ sometimes spelled trouveur, is the Northern French ( Langue d'oïl) form of the word Troubadour Jean Renart, alo known as Jean Renaut, was a Norman Trouvère or troubadour from the end of the XIIth century and the first half of the

In Brabant the name of the Knight of the Swan is Helias. The Duchy of Brabant was a historical region in the Low Countries.

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References

• Holböck, Ferdinand (2002). Married Saints and Blesseds. Ignatius Press. ISBN 0898708435.