Austrian knight and Minnesinger who told of his own jousts and courtship in the verse memoir Frauendienst (Service of Ladies). Heath Ledger's hero takes his name as an alias in the film A Knight's Tale (2001).
In the film he calls himself Ulrich von Liechtenstein.
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冯 renders the German 'von', as in 冯·诺伊曼 (John von Neumann). The country Liechtenstein is 列支敦士登 in Chinese; the 利顿斯坦 here is the film subtitles' own spelling. In Frauendienst he claims to have jousted from Mestre to Vienna dressed as Venus.