Wolfram von Eschenbach

Wolfram von Eschenbach was born around 1170, probably at Eschenbach, in Franconia. No archive names him: what is known of him comes from his texts, in which he describes himself as of knightly and poor birth, and counts himself among the Bavarians. He served several lords and frequented the court of Landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia, where he met Walther von der Vogelweide. He declares himself illiterate, a claim scholars debate. He left two other unfinished narratives and nine songs, including five dawn songs. He died around 1220; according to fifteenth-century testimonies, he was buried in the Church of Our Lady at Eschenbach.

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