Ambrose d’ÉvreuxArticle Free Pass Ambrose d’Évreux, (flourished
c. 1190), Norman poet and chronicler, who accompanied Richard I
of England as a minstrel on the Third Crusade. Nothing more is
known of him than that he was probably a native of Évreux and
was a noncombatant making the pilgrimage to Jerusalem. His
account of the Crusade is preserved in the Estoire de la guerre
sainte (“History of the Holy War”), a poem of over 12,000 lines
extant in an Anglo-Norman manuscript, but the Estoire is only an
adaptation of Ambrose’s work. The original poem was used by
Richard, a canon of Holy Trinity, London, as the source for his
Itinerarium Regis Ricardi (“Concerning the Expedition of King
Richard”). The Estoire has little literary merit, but it is a
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