List of Famous people with last name Troyes
Odo I, Count of Troyes
Odo I was the Count of Troyes from 852 to 859 and Count of Châteaudun through 871.
Chrétien de Troyes
Chrétien de Troyes was a French poet and trouvère known for his writing on Arthurian subjects, and for creating the characters of Lancelot, Percival and the Holy Grail. Chrétien's works, including Erec and Enide, Lancelot, Perceval and Yvain, represent some of the best-regarded of medieval literature. His use of structure, particularly in Yvain, has been seen as a step towards the modern novel.
Stephen II of Troyes
Stephen II of Troyes, sometimes called Etienne, was a Count of Troyes and Meaux from 1037 to 1047. He was the son of (Eudes) Odo II, Count of Blois and, Chartres, Rheims, Troyes and Meaux, and of Ermengarde of Auvergne.
Robert I, Count of Troyes
Robert I, called Porte-carquois, was the Count of Troyes. He was a son of Odo I, Count of Troyes, and Wandilmodis.
Lupus of Troyes
Saint Lupus (French: Loup, Leu, was an early bishop of Troyes. Around 426, the bishops in Britain requested assistance from the bishops of Gaul in dealing with Pelagianism. Germanus of Auxerre and Lupus were sent.
Odo II, Count of Troyes
Odo II was the Count of Troyes in 876. He was a son of Odo I and Wandilmodis.
Théodrate of Troyes
Théodrate of Troyes (868–903) was the wife of Odo, Count of Paris and Queen consort of Western Francia from 888 to 898. Evidence of Théodrate and Odo's children comes from non-contemporary or historically inauthentic sources. The eleventh-century chronicler Adémar de Chabannes wrote that they had a son, Arnoul (c.885-898), who died shortly after his father Odo. Guy is named as one of the couple's children in an Alan I's charter dated 28 August 903, but genealogist Christian Settipani says it's a falsification. The genealogical work Europäische Stammtafeln refers to Raoul (c.882-898) as a son of Odo by Théodrate, but its primary source is not known.
Stephen I, Count of Troyes
Stephen I of Meaux was the seventh Count of Meaux, in the Champagne region of modern-day France, after his father Herbert III, Count of Meaux.