Huon de Méry

First page of the Tournoiemenz in the manuscript Bodleian, Douce 308. The historiated initial shows Huon at work on his story. Huon de Méry (fl. 1200–1250) was the author of (modern , "The Tournament of the Antichrist"), a 3,546-line Old French poem written in octosyllables.

Life Huon's life is a matter of conjecture based on references in his work. He seems to have been a Norman who took part in the wars against Pierre Mauclerc, Duke of Brittany, during the minority of Louis IX (1232–1235). He wrote while he was a monk at Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

The Tournament of the Antichrist Published around 1234–1240, is a psychomachia The forces of God array in an apocalyptic struggle against those of the Antichrist. God's troops are made up of personified Virtues, archangels, and Arthurian knights. Vices, pagan gods, and peasants fight for the Antichrist. While Huon introduces courtly figures into the conventional battle of Vices and Virtues, love is not the poem's primary preoccupation. During the battle, the narrator is wounded in the eye by Cupid's arrow and seeks refuge in a monastery. Huon self-consciously acknowledges literary precedent, and views the Arthurian world as bygone and thoroughly explored by his poetic masters. At the same time, he asserts his own inventiveness with his distinctive conjointure of material.