Editing Camelot (section)

{{Short description|Castle and court associated with King Arthur}}
{{About|the legendary castle}}
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{{Infobox fictional location
| name       = Camelot 
| image      = Idylls of the King 3.jpg 
| imagesize  = 
| ruler      = [[King Arthur]] 
| caption    = [[Gustave Doré]]'s illustration of Camelot from ''[[Idylls of the King]]'' (1867)
| source     = [[Matter of Britain]]
| people     = [[Guinevere]], [[Knights of the Round Table]], [[Morgan le Fay]]
| first      = ''[[Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart]]''
| creator    = [[Chrétien de Troyes]]
}}
'''Camelot''' is a legendary [[castle]] and [[Royal court|court]] associated with [[King Arthur]]. Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and, since the [[Lancelot-Grail]] cycle, eventually came to be described as the fantastic capital of Arthur's realm and a symbol of the Arthurian world.

Medieval texts locate it somewhere in [[Great Britain]] and sometimes associate it with real cities, though more usually its precise location is not revealed. Most scholars regard it as being entirely fictional, its unspecified geography being perfect for [[chivalric romance]] writers. Nevertheless, arguments about the location of the "real Camelot" have occurred since the 15th century and continue today in popular works and for tourism purposes.