id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-638 Chivalric romance - Wikipedia .html text/html 4450 486 72 Overwhelmingly, these were linked in some way, perhaps only in an opening frame story, with three thematic cycles of tales: these were assembled in imagination at a late date as the "Matter of Rome" (actually centered on the life and deeds of Alexander the Great conflated with the Trojan War), the "Matter of France" (Charlemagne and Roland, his principal paladin) and the "Matter of Britain" (the lives and deeds of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, within which was incorporated the quest for the Holy Grail); medieval authors[who?] explicitly described these as comprising all romances.[7] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-638.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-638.txt