List of French-language Authors - Middle Ages

Middle Ages

• Turold (eleventh century)
• Wace (1110 – c.1180)
• Chrétien de Troyes (c.1135 – c.1183)
• Richard the Lionheart (Richard Coeur de Lion) (1157–1199)
• Benoît de Sainte-Maure (twelfth century)
• Le Châtelain de Couci (d.1203)
• Jean Bodel (12th century – c.1210)
• Conon de Béthune (c.1150–1220)
• Geoffroi de Villehardouin (c.1160 – c.1213)
• Béroul (c.1170)
• Thomas d'Angleterre (c.1170)
• Gace Brulé (c.1170)
• Marie de France (c.1175)
• Gautier de Coincy (1177/8–1236)
• Gautier de Dargies (c.1170–after 1236)
• Gautier d'Espinal († before July 1272)
• Gillebert de Berneville (fl c.1255)
• Gontier de Soignies (fl c.1180–1220)
• Guiot de Dijon (fl c.1200–30)
• Perrin d'Angicourt (fl c.1245–50)
• Jean Renart (fl. late 12th-first half of 13th century)
• Philippe de Rémi (c.1205–c1265)
• Philippe de Beaumanoir (c.1247–c1296)
• Raoul de Soissons (c.1215–1272)
• Richard de Fournival (1201– c.1260)
• Andrieu Contredit d'Arras († c.1248)
• Jehan le Cuvelier d'Arras (fl c.1240–70)
• Guillaume le Vinier (fl c.1220–45; †1245)
• Audefroi le Bâtard (fl c.1200–1230)
• Jehan Bretel (c.1200–1272)
• Jehan Erart († c.1259)
• Moniot d'Arras (fl c.1250–75)
• Robert de Clari (late twelfth century)
• Blondel de Nesle (late twelfth century)
• Robert de Boron (twelfth–thirteenth century)
• Guiot de Provins (d. After 1208)
• Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube (late twelfth-early thirteenth)
• Guillaume de Lorris (c.1200 – c.1238)
• Theobald IV of Champagne (1201–1253)
• Jean de Joinville ( c.1224 – c.1317)
• Rutebeuf (c.1230 – c.1285)
• Adam de la Halle (c.1250 – c.1285)
• Jean de Meung or Jean de Meun (1250 – c.1305) or Jean Clopinel or Chopinel
• Jacques Bretel (c. 1285 – c. 1310)
• Jean Le Bel (c.1290–1370)
• Colin Muset (end of thirteenth century)
• Guillaume de Machaut ( c.1300 – c.1377)
• Nicole Oresme (1325–1382)
• Philippe de Mézières (c.1327–1405)
• Jean Froissart (1333 – c.1404)
• Eustache Deschamps (c.1346 – c.1407)
• Jean Charlier called Gerson (1363–1429
• Christine de Pisan (1364–1430)
• Alain Chartier (c.1385 – c.1435)
• Jean Juvénal des Ursins (1388–1473)
• Antoine de la Sale (1388 – c.1469)
• Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c.1390 – c.1453)
• Charles, duc d'Orléans (1394–1465)