# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-of-chatillon
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:16:00.648Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-of-chatillon"
name: "Walter of Châtillon"
slug: "walter-of-chatillon"
description: "Walter of Châtillon was a 12th-century French writer and theologian who wrote in the Latin language. He studied under Stephen of Beauvais and at the University of Paris. It was probably during his student years that he wrote a number of Latin poems in the Goliardic manner that found their way into the Carmina Burana collection. During his lifetime, however, he was more esteemed for a long Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great, the Alexandreis, sive Gesta Alexandri Magni, a hexameter epic, full of anachronisms; he depicts the Crucifixion of Jesus as having already taken place during the days of Alexander the Great. The Alexandreis was popular and influential in Walter's own times. Matthew of Vendôme and Alan of Lille borrowed from it and Henry of Settimello imitated it, but it is now seldom read. One line, referring to Virgil's Aeneid, is sometimes quoted:Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim(\"He runs into Scylla, wanting to avoid Charybdis\")Extract from 1558 edition."
tagline: "12th-century French writer and theologian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tarragona_Alexandreia_ms.13_fontis.pdf?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1135"
deathDate: "1201"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.01683501683501683
  historical:           15.42142
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump