Editing Gareth (section)

{{short description|Knight of the Round Table}}
{{For|the given name and people and fictional characters with that name|Gareth (given name)}}
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{{Infobox_character
| series = [[Matter of Britain]]
| image = File:Sir Gareth of Orkney.png
| caption = "Sir Gareth of Orkney", [[Howard Pyle]]'s illustration for ''[[The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions]]'' (1907)
| first = The First Continuation of ''[[Perceval, the Story of the Grail]]''
| occupation = [[Knights of the Round Table|Knight of the Round Table]]
| title = Prince, Sir
| family = [[King Lot|Lot]], [[Morgause]] (parents) <BR> [[Agravain]], [[Gaheris]], [[Gawain]], [[Mordred]] (brothers) <BR> [[King Arthur]] (uncle)
| relatives = [[King Arthur's family]]
| spouse = [[Lynette and Lyonesse|Lyonesse]]
| home = [[Orkney]], [[Camelot]]
}}
'''Gareth''' ({{IPA|cy|ˈɡarɛθ|lang}}; [[Old French]]: ''Guerehet'', ''Guerrehet'') is a [[Knights of the Round Table|Knight of the Round Table]] in Arthurian legend. He is the youngest son of [[King Lot]] and [[Morgause|Queen Morgause]], [[King Arthur]]'s half-sister, thus making him Arthur's nephew, as well as brother to [[Gawain]], [[Agravain]] and [[Gaheris]], and either a brother or 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."<ref>Verses 8139–8142 in the Dufournet edition; verses 8056–8060 in the Méla edition.</ref> A brief 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"}} Gareth is particularly notable in ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'', where one of its eight books is named after and largely dedicated to him, and in which he is also known by his nickname '''Beaumains'''.