Renaud de Beaujeu

Renaud de Beaujeu or Renaut de Bâgé or de Baugé is the name of a medieval French author of Arthurian romance. He is known for only one major work, Le Bel Inconnu, the Fair Unknown, a poem of 6266 lines

Date and family origins Lion rampant ermine, on field azure. Blazon of the Seigneurs de Bâgé. William Henry Schofield in his time (1895) could write little of this figure, noting that other than being the author of Le Bel inconnu, "he is only known to us otherwise as the author of a song song, one stanza of which is preserved in Le Roman de la Rose ou de Guillaume de Dole. On the assumption that the heraldic device assigned to the title character of Le Bel Inconnu (namely lion ermine on field azure) had belonged to the poet, it was the discovered he belonged to the Bâgé family, and not the rivaling Beaujeu clan.