Wolfram von Eschenbach, a poor aristocrat patronized by Landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia, for whom Eschenbach writes the unfinished epic “Willehalm,” about William of Toulouse—who fought the Moors in 783 but ended his life as a monk—also writes some fine lyric poems and a stanzaic romance, “Titurel” (two fragments survive).

The poet is celebrated, however, for his long narrative poem, “Parzival,” written in 1200, an account the knight Parsifal's quest for the Holy Grail.