Odo Arpin of Bourges

Called Eudes Herpin of Bourges, optionally also harpin or Arpin ( † about 1109 in Cluny ), was a viscount of Bourges and Crusaders.

He was a son of Mr. Humbert Dun and married before 1092 Matilda, eldest daughter of the Lord Gilles de Sully. Mathilde was the heir of her maternal uncle, Viscount Stephen of Bourges, while his paternal inheritance fell to her younger sister Agnes and her husband William of Blois. Eudes was by him. Law his wife himself Viscount of Bourges in Berry

Eudes joined Duke William IX. of Aquitaine to the so-called crusade of 1101 to. To this armed pilgrimage fund he pledged Bourges 60,000 Sou to King Philip I of France. In Palestine, he may have been Lord of Caesarea. He fought in 1102 in the Second Battle of Ramla, where he fell into the captivity of the Saracens. After his detachment, he returned home and entered as a monk in the Abbey of Cluny, where he died around 1109.

Herpin of Bourges

Based on Eudes crusade travel originated in the Middle Ages, a chanson de geste, called Chanson de Lion de Bourges. In this poem he appears as Herzog Herpin of Bourges, who is banished from France to the Great intrigues of his enemies by Karl. He loses his beloved woman who fights to Toledo verschlägt during Herpin in a distant land against the infidels. Of these, taken captive, he is sold as a slave to Toledo, where he finds his wife and saves the city from enemy troops. Later Herpin is murdered and his wife dies of a broken heart.

However, the central figure of this story is the couple's son, the Lion was called because a lioness had suckled him. After many amorous affairs and dangerous adventures in the Kingdom of Sicily Lion finally manages to regain his paternal inheritance.

The song was in the 15th century by Elisabeth of Lorraine (Elisabeth of Nassau- Saarbrücken) as a prose novel entitled " Lewenbuch of Burges in Berrye " translated into German, but the title " Herpin " sat down for the work soon generally through.