Hugh of Rhuddlan ()Alternatively Hugues de Rotelande, Huon de Rotelande, Hugues de Rutland, Hugh de Rutland, Hugh of Rutland. was an important Cambro-Norman poet writing in the Anglo-Norman language at the end of the 12th century. He has been described as one of 'Angevin England's most mercurial literary figures'.
Life Hugh was a cleric and a native of Rhuddlan. He wrote in Credenhill, Herefordshire.William Calin, The Exaltation and Undermining of Romance: Ipomedon, in The Legacy of Chrétien de Troyes, edited by Norris J. Lacy, Douglas Kelly, Keith Busby. Gilbert de Monmouth Fitz Baderon, a grandson of Gilbert Fitz Richard, was his patron.
Works His works are Ipomedon and Protheselaus, two long metrical romances from the 1180s of over 10,000 lines, in octosyllables. The names, at least, were from the mid-century Le Roman de Thèbes; the romances are set in Italy. Protheselaus has been poorly regarded for its lack of narrative. The story describes the heroes journeys after hearing that Medea had rejected him as an admirer. He risks death, serves at the court of Medea and in imprisoned, but he is eventually reunited with Medea and they marry.
Several Middle English translations (Ipomadon, cited as Ippomedon in Thomas Warton, The History of English Poetry) were made.
A sixteenth century translation The Life of Ipomydon was made by Robert Copland and printed by Wynkyn de Worde.online text
References Article Hue de Rotelande by Keith Busby, p. 461 in Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, editor William Westcott Kibler Eugen Kölbing (1889), Franz Kluckow (1924), Hue de Rotelande: Protheselaus A. J. Holden (1979), A. J. Holden editor, Protheselaus by Hue de Rotelande Anglo-Norman Text Society Rhiannon Purdie, editor (2001), Ipomadon
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