Poictiers is a territory in France that Sir Launcelot assigns to Sir Bleoberis as a duchy after establishing his rule over the French lands. Its appearance in the settlement marks the conversion of Launcelot’s military authority into a hierarchy of grants and titles.

Place and Political Setting

The text locates Poictiers among the lands connected with France that Launcelot and his kin control. After leaving Britain with a hundred knights, Launcelot establishes himself in those territories, secures their towns and castles, and distributes titles among his supporters. Poictiers is named within this reorganization, rather than as the setting of a separately narrated adventure.

Grant to Sir Bleoberis

Launcelot makes Sir Bleoberis duke of Poictiers. The grant forms part of a wider reward for knights whose service and prowess underpin Launcelot’s authority: other followers receive duchies or earldoms across neighboring territories. Poictiers therefore functions in the narrative as a specific territorial office within that distribution of power and patronage.

Narrative Significance

The grant places Poictiers within the political settlement formed after the Round Table fellowship fractures. Launcelot’s reward of his knights gives his established lands a governing structure, while the titles bind military service to territorial authority. The passage identifies Poictiers as one element of this settlement; it does not describe the territory’s boundaries, population, or later history.