Gualter del Hum

Also known as: Gualter / Gualtiers · Family: Franks · Role: count · First appears: Laisses LXI–LXVI

In Laisses LXI–LXVI, Rollant orders Gualter del Hum to place a thousand Franks among the ravines and crags, and Gualter deploys them there. He is Rollant’s man and will not leave him: “I'm Rollant's man, I may not leave him there.” At the ravines and crags, Almaris meets Gualter’s Franks in combat.

In Laisses CLI–CLVI, mortally wounded, Gualter calls Rollant for help, and Rollant rides to him. They renew their fight against the pagans, but Gualter is slain by their first volley. Rollant mourns the loss of his friend; Gualter is also the nephew of Drouin.

Relationship record

Life events

• Rollant orders Gualtiers to take a thousand Franks and position them among the ravines and crags.(Laisses LXI–LXVI · 📍 France)
  • With: Rollant
  • “A thousand Franks take, out of France our land; Dispose them so, among ravines and crags, That the Emperour lose not a single man.”
• Gualtiers deploys a thousand Franks among the ravines and crags.(Laisses LXI–LXVI)
  • “A thousand Franks, come out of France their land, At Gualter's word they scour ravines and crags;”
• Almaris meets Gualtiers's Franks in combat.(Laisses LXI–LXVI · 📍 ravines and crags)
  • With: Almaris
  • “King Almaris, Belserne for kingdom had, On the evil day he met them in combat.”
• Gualter del Hum, mortally wounded, calls Rollant for succour, and Rollant rides to him.(Laisses CLI–CLVI)
  • With: Rollant
  • “I'm dying. Yet full price for life I took. Rollant has heard these words and understood, Has spurred his horse, and on towards him drew.”
• Rollant and Gualter del Hum renew their fight against the pagans.(Laisses CLI–CLVI)
  • With: Rollant
  • “Count Rollant is a noble and brave soldier, Gualter del Hum's a right good chevalier, That Archbishop hath shewn good prowess there; None of them falls behind the other pair; Through the great press, pagans they strike again.”
• Gualter del Hum is slain by the pagans' first volley.(Laisses CLI–CLVI)
  • “With the first flight they've slain our Gualtier;”

Laisses LXI–LXVI

• lord: Rollant (Gualtiers declares himself Rollant’s man.) “I'm Rollant's man, I may not leave him there.”
• enemies with Almaris (Gualtiers leads the Franks whom Almaris meets in combat.) “King Almaris, Belserne for kingdom had, On the evil day he met them in combat.”

Laisses CLI–CLVI

• lord: Rollant “My vassalage thou ever thoughtest good.”
• enemies with Maelgut “Gualter it is, who conquered Maelgut,”
• elder kin: Drouin “Gualter it is, who conquered Maelgut, And nephew was to hoary old Drouin;”
• friends with Rollant “So Rollant's friend is dead whom when he sees”

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Extracted from the original text of The Song of Roland. Made with Rho MD.