Brabant

He Adenès or Adans le Roi derived his imposing surname from the function of king of the minstrels, which he performed at the court of Henry III., must have been born about the middle of the thirteenth century, and the last probable allusion to him which we have occurs in the year 1297. The events of his life are only known from his own poems, and consist chiefly of travels in company with different prince es and princes of Flanders and Brabant. His literary work is however of great importance. It consists partly of refashion ings of three Chansons de Gestes, "Les enfances Ogier," "Berte a us grans Piés," and "Bueves de Com march is." In these three poems Adenès works up the old epics into the form fashionable in his time, and as we po e the older versions of the first and last, the comparison of the two forms affords a literary study of the highest interest. His last, longest, and most important work is the roman d'aventures of Cléomadès, a poem extending to 20,000 verses, and not le valuable for its intrinsic merit than as a type of its cla .