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Robert de Boron

French poet whose early 13th-century 'Joseph d'Arimathie' recast Chrétien de Troyes's ambiguous grail as the cup of the Last Supper used by Joseph of Arimathea to catch Christ's blood, the version almost all later Arthurian writers adopted.

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  • Robert de Boron was influenced by Chrétien de Troyes — Robert de Boron's Joseph d'Arimathie built directly on Chretien's unfinished Perceval.

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  • Robert de Boron popularised Holy Grail — Recast Chrétien's ambiguous vessel explicitly as the Last Supper cup, the version nearly all later writers adopted.

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