Ulrich von Zatzikhoven

Ulrich von Zatzikhoven was the author of the Middle High German Arthurian romance Lanzelet.

His name and his origin Zezikon are ourselves only known from his work, which was probably not by 1193 at an unknown place for very long. It is widely believed, Ulrich was the same person as a secular priest mentioned in documents in 1214 by Lommis in the canton of Thurgau with names Uolricus de Cecinchoven. This appears in the list of witnesses a deed of gift of the count's family of the Toggenburg to the monastery of St. Peter's cell on March 29, 1214.

Ulrich's only known work is the Middle High German verse novel Lanzelet, which is a paraphrase of an unknown Old French Arthurian romance. Hero of the novel is the knight Lancelot, whose story had Chrétien de Troyes tells little earlier in his Le Chevalier de la Charette ( carts Ritter).

However, Ulrich's Lancelot novel differs greatly from the content of Chrétien. Ulrich himself calls the template daz Welsh buoch of Lanzelete (v. 9341 ), and she was in the luggage of the Anglo-Norman nobleman Hugh of Morville, one of the hostages for the English King Richard the Lionheart, came to Germany. Richard was of 21 December 1192 to the February 4, 1194 in Captivity to the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI. During this time, Ulrich must have met the old French novel.