Another, unknown, poet wrote a sequel, expanding the original to a full eight thousand line version. Willem's Reynard was translated into Latin verse by a contemporary. Nevertheless, he is in the end sent into exile. He is accused of various crimes, but generally outwits his accusers. Reinaert’s castle is actually Siger III’s country retreat at Destelbergen, which appears on later maps by the same name as Reinaert’s lair, Mapertuus, meaning Hell’s Gate.ĭe Vries argues that the animal characters represent barons who conspired against the Count of Flanders. The figure of the concupiscent and vacillating Noble the Lion seems to be based on Philip, who slavishly followed the King of France’s orders and handed over two princesses as hostages to his master. It is supposed that Willem wrote Van den Vos Reinaerde to encourage Siger III, chatelain of the Counts’ Castle in Ghent, who was unjustly deprived of his post around 1210 by Philip the Noble, Count of Namur and Regent of Flanders. MeaningĪndré De Vries writes that the work is an allegory of contemporary netherlandish politics at the court of Philip I of Namur, known as "Philip the Noble":
Many women are sexually promiscuous and include prostitutes. The common population is often violent and cruel. The nobility is being portrayed as lazy and often stupid. Satire about a fox who kills and bullies, and gets away with his deeds.
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