Editing Gaheris (section)

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{{Distinguish|text=[[Gaheris of Karaheu]], another Knight of the Round Table}}
{{Infobox character
| name             = Gaheris
| series           = [[Matter of Britain]]
| image            = File:Blason imaginaire de Gaheriet.svg
| caption          = Gaheriet's [[attributed arms]]
| first            = ''[[Perceval, the Story of the Grail]]''
| creator          = Possibly [[Chrétien de Troyes]]
| based_on         = Likely [[#origin|Gwalhafed]]
| occupation       = [[Knights of the Round Table|Knight of the Round Table]]
| title            = Prince, Sir
| family           = [[King Arthur's family]]<hr>In ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'':<br>[[King Lot|Lot]], [[Morgause]] (parents); [[Agravain]], [[Gawain]], [[Gareth]], [[Mordred]] (brothers) 
| spouse           = [[Lynette and Lyonesse|Lynette]]
| home = [[Orkney]], [[Camelot]]
}}
'''Gaheris''' ({{IPAc-en|ɡ|ə|ˈ|h|ɛr|ᵻ|s}} {{respell|gə|HERR|iss}}; {{langx|fro|Gaheriet}},{{#tag:ref|Spelling varies according to sources and declension. In the Old French ''La Mort le roi Artu'', "Gaheriet" in the [[oblique case]] and "Gaheriez" in the [[nominative case]].<ref>Jean Frappier, ed., ''La Mort le roi Artu'', Paris: Droz, 1996, p.291. {{ISBN|2600001832}}).</ref> Elsewhere, it can be an oblique "Gahariet" and a nominative "Gaharies".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hHw6AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA393|title=Studies in the Arthurian Legend|date=4 April 1891|publisher=Clarendon Press|via=Google Books}}</ref> Sometimes also rendered in other forms such as "Gahereit", "Gahereitz" (in ''Le Roman de Florian et Florete''), or "Kaheriet".|group="note"}} ''Gaheriés'',{{#tag:ref|Also with many variants, such as "Gaheryés". For instance, one manuscript of the Didot ''Perceval'' uses the name "Agavez", a corruption of the "Gaharés" (or "Gahariés") form of Gaheriés.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zVErEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA110|title=The Didot "Perceval": According to the Manuscripts of Modena and Paris|first=William|last=Roach|date=11 November 2016|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=9781512805727|via=Google Books}}</ref>|group="note"}} ''Guerrehes'', etc.) is a [[Knight of the Round Table]] in the [[chivalric romance]] tradition of [[Arthurian legend]]. A nephew of [[King Arthur]], Gaheris is the third son of Arthur's sister or half-sister [[Morgause]] and her husband [[Lot (Arthurian legend)|Lot]], King of [[Orkney]] and [[Lothian]]. He is the younger brother of [[Gawain]] and [[Agravain]], the older brother of [[Gareth]], and half-brother of [[Mordred]].{{#tag:ref|An enumeration of the four brothers (excluding Mordred) can be found in [[Chrétien de Troyes]]'s ''[[Perceval, the Story of the Grail]]'' when Gawain tells the "white-haired queen" (his grandmother [[Igraine]]) the names of the four brothers ("Gawain is the oldest, the second Agravain the Proud [...], Gaheriet and Guerehet are the names of the following two." (verses 8139–8142 in the Dufournet edition; verses 8056–8060 in the Méla edition). A portrait of the five brothers (including Mordred) can be found in the prose ''Lancelot''.<ref>Norris J. Lacy, ed., ''Lancelot-Grail: Lancelot Parts III and IV'', Volume 4 of ''Lancelot-Grail: The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation'', Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2010, pp. 392–4. {{ISBN|9781843842354}}.</ref>|group="note"}} His figure may have been originally derived from that of a brother of Gawain in the early Welsh tradition and then later split into a separate character of another brother, today best known as Gareth. German poetry also described him as Gawain's cousin instead of brother.

[[Thomas Malory|Malory]]'s ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'' depicts Gaheris as little more than a supporting character to Gawain, with an odd exception of his murder of their mother. However, his role is greater in French prose cycles that were Malory's sources, including as an object of murderous [[sibling rivalry]] by his older brother Agravain in the [[Vulgate Cycle]]. Inevitably, both there and in Malory, Gaheris is killed alongside his other brother Gareth during [[Lancelot]]'s rescue of [[Guinevere]], the event that will lead to the fall of Arthur.