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Roland
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Roland (; ; or Rotholandus; or Rolando; died 15 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became an epic hero and one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the Matter of France. The historical Roland was military governor of the Breton March, responsible for defending Francia's frontier against the Bretons. His only historical attestation is in Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni, which notes he was part of the Frankish rearguard killed in retribution by the Basques in Iberia at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass.
Roland was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne in the 8th century who governed the frontier region known as the Breton March and died in 778 at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. He matters because he became a legendary figure in medieval European literature, inspiring the literary cycle called the Matter of France, even though historical records about his actual life are sparse.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1886
- Died
- 1973
- Works
- 105
Top works
- Le Cabaret de la Belle Femme
- Souvenirs sur les croix de bois
- Sur la route mandarine
- Bouquet de bohème
- Le dernier moussem
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1952-05-10
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 10,722
- Total plays
- 82,429
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Ever since the 70s Roland Van Campenhout is known to be one of the best blues performers in Belgium - be it solo, with just an acoustic guitar and a mouth harp, or with some friends, just having a ball... Of course, Roland is more than just the blues. On his LPs and CDs he experiments with oriental sounds and samples (listen to his 1990 album The Last Tribe); On Snowblind you'll find a lot of instrumental tracks, setting a lot of different moods... You wonder how come the weird music on Little
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers
· 2015 · cited 24,293x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,519x
- Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made
· 2017 · cited 15,748x
- Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean
· 2015 · cited 10,752x
- Complex heatmaps reveal patterns and correlations in multidimensional genomic data
· 2016 · cited 9,300x
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Quotes
- “To give one a Roland for an Oliver.”
- “Alone, as if enduring to the endA valiant armor of scarred hopes outworn,He stood there in the middle of the roadLike Roland's ghost winding a silent horn.”
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Key facts
- Military person.name
- Roland
- Military person.image
- Gare Metz décor 16.png
- Military person.caption
- A statue of Roland at Metz railway station, France
- Military person.native_name
- Hrōþiland
- Military person.native_name_lang
- frk
- Military person.death_date
- 15 August 778
- Military person.placeofburial
- Blaye
- Military person.allegiance
- Frankish
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- HB 2016-0607 photo03 Bremer Roland.jpg
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- Roland
- date of death
- 0778-08-15
- date of birth
- 0737-00-00
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Roland (; ; or Rotholandus; or Rolando; died 15 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became an epic hero and one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the Matter of France. The historical Roland was military governor of the Breton March, responsible for defending Francia's frontier against the Bretons. His only historical attestation is in Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni, which notes he was part of the Frankish rearguard killed in retribution by the Basques in Iberia at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass.
The story of Roland's death at Roncevaux Pass was embellished in later medieval and Renaissance literature. The first and most famous of these epic treatments was the Old French Chanson de Roland of the 11th century.