Rahn was convinced that the 13th century work Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach was a veiled account of the Cathars.

** Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach-( Middle High German )

These are written in rhyming couplets, and again draw on French models such as Chrétien de Troyes, many of them relating Arthurian material, for example, Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach.

Chivalry and the court life flowered, leading to a development of German culture and literature ( see Wolfram von Eschenbach ).

Chretien's story attracted many continuators, translators and interpreters in the later 12th and early 13th centuries, including Wolfram von Eschenbach, who makes the grail a great precious stone that fell from the sky.

In Parzival, Wolfram von Eschenbach, citing the authority of a certain ( probably fictional ) Kyot the Provençal, claimed the Grail was a stone ( called lapis exillis ) that fell from Heaven, and had been the sanctuary of the neutral angels who took neither side during Lucifer's rebellion.

* The German Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, which adapted at least the holiness of Robert ’ s Grail into the framework of Chrétien ’ s story.

Perhaps twenty years later Parzival, Wolfram von Eschenbach's version of the tale, refers to knights called " Templeisen " guarding the Grail Kingdom.

Other officers promoted to the second highest military rank in Germany were Albert Kesselring, Hugo Sperrle, Erhard Milch, and Wolfram von Richthofen.

Maastricht painters were praised by Wolfram von Eschenbach in his Parzival.

* 1895 – Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal ( d. 1945 )

* July 12 – Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal ( b. 1895 )

* October 10 – Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal ( d. 1945 )

The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach and its sequel, Lohengrin, written by a different author, itself inspired by the epic of Garin le Loherain.

# 149v: Herr Wolfram von Eschenbach ( c. 1170 – c. 1220 )

It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the 13th century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival ( Percival ) and his quest for the Holy Grail, and on Chrétien de Troyes ' Perceval, the Story of the Grail.

Wagner first read Wolfram von Eschenbach's poem Parzival while taking the waters at Marienbad in 1845.

The re-discovery of medieval Germanic poetry, including Gottfried von Strassburg's version of Tristan, the Nibelunglied and Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, left a large impact on the German Romantic movements during the mid-19th century.

* Cycloid Curves by Sean Madsen with contributions by David von Seggern, Wolfram Demonstrations Project.

* Wolfram von Eschenbach ( 1170 – 1220 ), German writer

* Wolfram von Richthofen, German Field Marshal General of the Luftwaffe during World War II

* Wolfram von Bielefeld, character from Kyo Kara Maoh!

* Wolfram von Eschenbach, fictional portrayal of historical figure, in the opera Tannhäuser

There is an alternative account of Uther Pendragon's background in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival.

She is also known in Latin as Igerna, in Welsh as Eigyr, in French as Igerne, in Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur as Ygrayne — often modernized as Igraine — and in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival as Arnive.

This same account appears in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and in Heinrich von dem Türlin's Diu Krone.

In his opera Parsifal, Richard Wagner identifies the Holy Spear with two items that appear in Wolfram von Eschenbach's medieval poem Parzival, a bleeding spear in the Castle of the Grail and the spear that has wounded the Fisher King.

Three of Middle High German literature's finest examples, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and Hartmann von Aue's Erec and Iwein, were based on Perceval, Erec, and Yvain ; the Three Welsh Romances associated with the Mabinogion, Peredur, son of Efrawg, Geraint and Enid, and Owain, or the Lady of the Fountain are derived from the same trio.

This story cycle recounts multiple quests, in multiple variants, telling stories both of the heroes who succeed, like Percival ( in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival ) or Sir Galahad ( in the Queste del Saint Graal ), and also the heroes who fail, like Sir Lancelot.

* The Baruch of Baghdad, the king of the Saracens in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival

While The Song of Roland was among the first French epics to be translated into German ( by Konrad der Pfaffe as the Rolandslied, c. 1170 ), and the German poet Wolfram von Eschenbach based his ( incomplete ) 13th century epic Willehalm ( consisting of seventy-eight manuscripts ) on the Aliscans, a work in the cycle of William of Orange ( Eschenbach's work had a great success in Germany ), these remained isolated examples.

Similar legends may be found in Wolfram von Eschenbach's description of the Holy Grail as the " Lapis Exillis ", guarded by the Knights Templar, or in the Philosophers ' stone of the alchemists, the " Lapis Elixir ".

Chrétien de Troyes wrote the first story of Perceval, le Conte du Graal ; Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur, and the now lost Perceval of Robert de Boron are other famous accounts of his adventures.

In Paris, he gains friends ( such as the Archpoet, Abdul, Robert de Boron and Kyot, the purported source of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival ) and learns about the legendary kingdom of Prester John.

Gottfried's work is regarded, alongside Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and the Nibelungenlied, as one of the great narrative masterpieces of the German Middle Ages.

In Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, a retelling of Chrétien, the Red Knight is identified as Sir Ither, the Red Knight of Kukumerlant, a cousin to both Arthur and Parzival.

Their current name comes from Wolfram von Eschenbach's 13th century German poem Parzival.

" Wolfram von Eschenbach's ' Bow Metaphor ' and the Narrative Technique of Parzival.

Aided by the French mystic and historian Antonin Gadal, Rahn argued that there was a direct link between Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Parzival and the Cathar Grail mystery.

Originally, this literature was written in Old French, Anglo-Norman and Occitan, later, in English and German — notable later English works being King Horn ( a translation of the Anglo-Norman ( AN ) Romance of Horn of Mestre Thomas ), and Havelok the Dane ( a translation of the anonymous AN Lai d ' Haveloc ); around the same time Gottfried von Strassburg's version of the Tristan of Thomas of Britain ( a different Thomas to the author of ' Horn ') and Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival translated classic French romance narrative into the German tongue.

Wolfram von Eschenbach's version inspired two later romances and the opera Lohengrin by Richard Wagner.

His story, which first appears in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, is a version of the Knight of the Swan legend known from a variety of medieval sources.

Lohengrin first appears as " Loherangrin ," the son of Parzival and Condwiramurs in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival.