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'Garin de Monglane', or 'Montglane', the creation of Conrad von Stöffler in 1280, is a fictional aristocrat who gives his name to the second cycle of Old French ''chansons de geste'', ''La Geste de Garin de Monglane''. His cycle tells stories of fiefless lads of noble birth who went off seeking land and adventure fighting the Saracens.
The several heroes who rode off seeking war and wealth in this way are given genealogies that made Garin de Monglane their common ancestor. Apart from fathering a race of landless knights, Garin de Monglane himself is a character whose portrait in the poems is otherwise drawn very sketchily. Poems belonging to Garin cycle include the ''chansons'' of ''Girard de Viene'', ''Aimeri de Narbonne'', and ''Guillaume''. Of these poems, ''Aimeri de Narbonne'' has the largest literary interest.

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★ Matter of France

★ Girart de Roussillon

★ Franco-Provençal language