Timeline of Grail Texts
Chrétien de Troyes, Le Conte du Graal (Perceval) (c. 1180)
Robert de Boron, Le Roman de l’Estoire dou Graal [Joseph of Arimathea] (1180-1210)
The First Grail Continuation (c. 1190)
The Second Grail Continuation (c. 1195)
Perlesvaus (1191-1225)
Robert de Boron, Joseph of Arimathea, Merlin, and Perceval (c. 1200)
Peredur, son of Efrawg (c. 1200)
Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival (completed by 1207)
The Didot Perceval (1210)
Le Haut Livre du Graal (Perlesvaus) (c. 1210)
Diu Crône [The Crown] (c. 1220)
Gerbert de Montreuil’s Continuation (1225-1230)
Manessier’s Third Continuation (1225-1230)
Queste del Saint Graal, from Vulgate Cycle (c. 1230)
Estoire de Saint Graal (History of the Holy Grail), from Vulgate Cycle (c. 1240)
"Suite du Merlin" or "Merlin Continuation," from Post-Vulgate (c. 1250)
Thomas Malory, Le Morte D’Arthur (1469)
James Russell Lowell, "The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)
William Morris, "Sir Galahad: A Christmas Mystery" (1858)
Frederick Furnivall's edition of Queste del Saint Graal (c. 1862)
Robert Stephen Hawker, "The Quest of the Sangraal" (1864)
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King (1869; 1872)
Richard Wagner, Parsifal (c. 1882)
Richard Hovey, The Holy Graal [poetic drama] (1907)
Sara Hawks Sterling, A Lady of King Arthur's Court (1907)
Charles Williams, War in Heaven (1930)
Charles Williams, Taliessin through Logres (1938)
T.H. White, The Ill-Made Knight (1940)
Charles Williams, The Region of the Summer Stars (1944)
C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength (1945)
T.H. White, The Once and Future King (1958)
Camelot Musical (1960)
Dorothy James Roberts, Kinsmen of the Grail (1963)
Richard Monaco, Parsival or A Knight's Tale (1997)
Catherine Christian, The Pendragon (1978)
Richard Monaco, The Grail War (1979)
Marion Zimmer Bradly, The Mists of Avalon (1979)
Richard Monaco, The Final Quest (1980)
Richard Monaco, Blood and Dreams (1985)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Stephen Lawhead, Grail (1997)