Garin de Monglane
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Garin de Monglane, or Montglane, is a fictional aristocrat who gives his name to the second cycle of Old French chansons de geste. 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 were 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 the cycle given his name include the chansons of Girard de Viene, Aimeri de Narbonne, and Guillaume. Of these poems, Aimeri de Narbonne has the largest literary interest.