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== Partial lists == Some of the more notable knights include the following: {{clear}} {| class="wikitable sortable" |- |+Overview of common members of the Knights of the Round Table |- !scope="col" style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Name !scope="col" style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Other names !scope="col" style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Introduction !scope="col" style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Other medieval works !scope="col" style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Notes |- |scope="row"|[[Accolon]] |Sir Accolon of Gaul | ''[[Post-Vulgate Cycle]]'', c. 13th century |''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'' |Loved by [[Morgan le Fay]], accidentally killed in a duel with King Arthur. |- |scope="row"| [[Aglovale]] | Agloval, Sir Aglovale de Galis | | ''The Life of Sir Aglovale de Galis'' | King Pellinore's eldest son. |- |scope="row"| [[Agravain]] | Agravaine | | [[Lancelot-Grail]], ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'' | Second son of [[King Lot]] (of either [[Lothian]] or [[Orkney]]) and Arthur's sister [[Morgause]]. |- |scope="row"| [[King Arthur|Arthur]] | Arthur Pendragon, Arturus, King Arthur | ''[[Y Gododdin]]'', c. 6th century | Many | [[List of legendary kings of Britain|High King of Britain]], ruler of [[Logres]] and lord of [[Camelot]]. |- |scope="row"| [[Bagdemagus]] | | |''[[Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart]]'', 1170s | Meleagant's father and ruler of Gorre. |- |scope="row"| [[Bedivere]] | (Welsh: ''Bedwyr'', French: ''Bédoier'') Bedevere | ''Pa Gur yv y Porthaur'', c. 10th century | ''[[Cadoc|Vita Cadoc]]'', ''[[Culhwch and Olwen]]'', ''[[Englynion y Beddau|Stanzas of the Graves]]'', ''[[Welsh Triads]]'', ''[[Historia Regum Britanniae]]'', ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'', numerous others | Returns [[Excalibur]] to the [[Lady of the Lake]]; brother to Lucan. |- |scope="row"| [[Bors the Younger]] | | | | Son of Bors the Elder, father of Elyan the White; Arthur's successor in some versions. |- |scope="row"|[[Brunor]] | Breunor le Noir, ''La Cote Mal Taillée'' ("The Badly-shaped Coat") | | |Knight who wears his murdered father's coat; brother of Dinadan and Daniel. |- |scope="row"| [[Cador]] | (Latin: ''Cadorius'') | | ''[[Historia Regum Britanniae]]'', ''[[The Dream of Rhonabwy]]'' | Raised [[Guinevere]] as her ward, father to [[Constantine (Briton)|Constantine]]; described in some works as Arthur's cousin. |- |scope="row"| [[Calogrenant]] | Colgrevance | ''[[Yvain, the Knight of the Lion]]'', 1170s | ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'' | Cousin to Sir Yvain. |- |scope="row"| [[Caradoc]] | (Latin: ''Caractacus'') (Welsh: ''Caradog Freichfras'', meaning Caradoc Strong Arm) (French: ''Carados Briefbras'') (English: Carados of Scotland) | | ''[[Perceval, the Story of the Grail]]'', the ''[[Mabinogion]]'' | Rebelled against Arthur when he first became king, but later supported him. Sometimes two characters: Caradoc the Elder (a king) and Caradoc the Younger (a knight). |- | [[#Claudin|Claudin]] | | | [[Lancelot-Grail]], ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'' | Virtuous son of the villain king [[Claudas]]. |- |scope="row"| [[Constantine (Briton)|Constantine]] | |''[[Historia Regum Britanniae]]'', c. 1136 | ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'' | Arthur's cousin and successor to his throne; Cador's son. |- |scope="row"| [[Dagonet]] | | | | Arthur's [[court jester]]. |- |scope="row"| Daniel von Blumenthal | | ''[[Daniel von Blumenthal]]'', 1220 | | Knight found in an early German offshoot of Arthurian legend. |- |scope="row"| [[Dinadan]] | | [[Prose Tristan|Prose ''Tristan'']], 1230s | ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'' | Son of Sir Brunor the Senior. |- |scope="row"| [[Sir Ector|Ector]] | Hector, Antor, Ectorius |[[Lancelot-Grail]], early 13th century | ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'' | Raises Arthur according to [[Merlin]]'s command; father to Kay. |- |scope="row"| [[Elyan the White]] | (French: ''Helyan le Blanc'') | | | Son of Bors |- |scope="row"| [[Erec]] | |Unclear; first literary appearance as Erec in ''[[Erec and Enide]]'', c. 1170 |See ''[[Geraint and Enid]]'' | Son of King Lac. |- |scope="row"| [[Esclabor]] | | | | Exiled Saracen king; father of Palamedes, Safir, and Segwarides. |- |scope="row"| [[Feirefiz]] | |[[Wolfram von Eschenbach]]'s ''[[Parzival]]'', early 13th century | | Half-brother to Percival; Arthur's nephew. |- |scope="row"| [[Gaheris]] | | | ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'' | Son of [[King Lot]] and [[Morgause]], brother to Gawain, Agravaine, and Gareth, and half-brother to Mordred. |- |scope="row"| [[Galahad]] | | [[Lancelot-Grail]], early 13th century | [[Post-Vulgate Cycle]], ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'' | Bastard son of Sir Lancelot and [[Elaine of Corbenic]]; the main achiever of the Holy Grail. |- |scope="row"| [[Galehault]] |Galehalt, Galehaut |[[Lancelot-Grail]], early 13th century | |A half-giant foreign king, a former enemy of Arthur who becomes close to Lancelot. |- |scope="row"|[[Galeschin]] |Galeshin |The [[Vulgate Cycle]] | |Son of [[Elaine (legend)|Elaine of Garlot]] and [[King Nentres]]; nephew of Arthur. |- |scope="row"| [[Gareth]] | [[Beaumains]] | |''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'', ''[[Idylls of the King]]'' | Also a son of [[King Lot]] and [[Morgause]]; in love with [[Lynette and Lyonesse|Lyonesse]]. |- |scope="row"| [[Gawain]] | (Latin: ''Walwanus'', Welsh: ''Gwalchmai'', Irish: ''Balbhuaidh'') | ''[[Culhwch and Olwen]]'', c. 11th century |''[[Perceval, the Story of the Grail|Conte du Graal]]'', [[Lancelot-Grail]] cycle, [[Prose Tristan|Prose ''Tristan'']],''[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'', ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'' and many short Middle English romances | Another son of [[King Lot]] and [[Morgause]]; father of Gingalain. |- |scope="row"| [[Geraint]] | | |''[[Geraint and Enid]]'' | Enid's lover. |- |scope="row"| [[Gingalain]] | Guinglain, Gingalin, Gliglois, Wigalois, etc., also ''Le Bel Inconnu'', or The Fair Unknown | | ''Le Bel Inconnu'' | Gawain's son. |- |scope="row"| [[Gornemant]] | Gurnemanz | ''[[Perceval, the Story of the Grail]]'' | ''[[Parzival]]'' | Mentor of Perceval. |- |scope="row"| [[Griflet]] | Girflet, Jaufre | | ''[[Jaufré]]'' | A cousin to Lucan and Bedivere. |- |scope="row"| [[Hector de Maris]] |Ector de Maris | | ''Quest du Saint Graal'' ([[Vulgate Cycle]]) | Half-brother of Lancelot, son of [[King Ban]]; Bors and Lionel are his cousins. |- |scope="row"| [[Hoel]] | (Welsh: ''Howel'', ''Hywel'') | | ''[[The Dream of Rhonabwy]]'', ''[[Geraint and Enid]]'' | Son of King [[Budic II of Brittany|Budic of Brittany]]; father to [[St. Tudwal]]. |- |scope="row"| [[Sir Kay|Kay]] | (Welsh: ''Cai'', Latin: ''Caius'') | ''Pa Gur yv y porthaur?'' 10th century | Many | Ector's son, foster brother to Arthur. |- |scope="row"| [[Lamorak]] | | [[Prose Tristan|Prose ''Tristan'']], c. 1235 | [[Lancelot-Grail]] Cycle | Son of King Pellinore, brother to Tor, Aglovale, Percival, and Dindrane; lover of [[Morgause]]. |- |scope="row"| [[Lancelot]] |''Lancelot du Lac'', Lancelot of the Lake, Launcelot |''[[Erec and Enide]]'', c. 1170 |''[[Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart]]'', [[Lancelot-Grail]], many others | Son of [[King Ban]] from France, most famous for his affair with [[Queen Guinevere]], father of Galahad, most prominent Knight of the Round Table in later romances |- |scope="row"| [[Lanval]] |Landevale, Launfal, Lambewell | [[Marie de France]]'s ''[[Lanval]]'', late 12th century | ''Sir Landevale'', ''[[Sir Launfal]]'', ''Sir Lambewell'' | Enemy of [[Guinevere]]. |- |scope="row"| [[Leodegrance]] | Leondegrance | | | Guinevere's father, King of [[Cameliard]], and the holder of the Round Table during the period between the death of Uther and the reign of Arthur. |- |scope="row"| [[Sir Lionel|Lionel]] | | |[[Lancelot-Grail]], early 13th century | Son of [[King Bors]] of Gaunnes (or [[Gaul]]) and brother of Bors the Younger. |- |scope="row"| [[Sir Lucan|Lucan]] | Sir Lucan the Butler | |''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'' |Servant to King Arthur; Bedivere's brother, Griflet's cousin. |- |scope="row"|[[Maleagant]] |Malagant, Meleagant, perhaps Melwas |Unclear, a similar character named "Melwas" appears in the 12th century ''[[Gildas|Life of Gildas]]'' |[[Lancelot-Grail]], [[Post-Vulgate Cycle]], ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'' |Abductor of [[Guinevere]]. |- |scope="row"| [[Mordred]] |Modred (Welsh: ''Medrawd'', Latin: ''Medraut'') | ''[[Annales Cambriae]]'', c. 970 |Many |In the Round Table stories, Arthur's illegitimate son through [[Morgause]]. |- |scope="row"| [[Morholt]] |Marhalt, Morold, Marhaus | Tristan poems of [[Béroul]] and [[Thomas of Britain]], 12th century | Tristan poems of [[Eilhart von Oberge]], [[Gottfried von Strassburg]], [[Prose Tristan|Prose ''Tristan'']], [[Post-Vulgate Cycle]], ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'' | Irish knight, rival of Tristan and uncle of [[Iseult]]. |- |scope="row"| [[Morien]] | Moriaen |Dutch romance ''[[Morien]]'', 13th century | |Half-[[Moors|Moorish]] son of Aglovale. |- |scope="row"| [[Palamedes (Arthurian legend)|Palamedes]] | |[[Prose Tristan|Prose ''Tristan'']], 13th century | |Saracen, Son of King Esclabor, brother of Safir and Segwarides. |- |scope="row"| [[Pelleas]] | Pellias | [[Post-Vulgate Cycle]], 1230s |''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'' |In love with Ettarre, later lover of [[Lady of the Lake|Nimue]]. |- |scope="row"| [[Pellinore]] | | |[[Lancelot-Grail]], [[Post-Vulgate Cycle]] |King of Listenoise and friend to Arthur. |- |scope="row"| [[Percival]] | (Welsh: ''Peredur'') Perceval, Parzifal | As Percival, ''[[Erec and Enide]]'', c. 1170 | ''[[Perceval, the Story of the Grail]]'', [[Lancelot-Grail]], many |Achiever of the [[Holy Grail]]; King Pellinore's son in some tales. |- |scope="row"| [[#Safir|Safir]] | | |[[Thomas Malory]]'s ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'', [[Prose Tristan|Prose ''Tristan'']] |Son to King Esclabor; brother of Segwarides and Palamedes. |- |scope="row"|[[Sagramore]] |Sagramor | |[[Lancelot-Grail]], [[Post-Vulgate Cycle]], [[Prose Tristan|Prose ''Tristan'']], ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'' |Ubiquitous Knight of the Round Table; various stories and origins are given for him. |- |scope="row"| [[Segwarides]] | | |''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'', [[Prose Tristan|Prose ''Tristan'']] |Son of Esclabor; brother of Safir and Palamedes. |- |scope="row"| [[Sir Tor|Tor]] | | |''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'' |Son of King Ars, adopted by Pellinore. |- |scope="row"| [[Tristan]] |(Latin/Brythonic: ''Drustanus''; Welsh: ''Drystan''; Portuguese: ''Tristão''; Spanish: ''Tristán'') Tristran, Tristram, etc. |[[Beroul]]'s ''Roman de Tristan'' |The two ''Folies Tristans'', [[Marie de France]]'s ''Chevrefeuil'', [[Eilhart von Oberge]], [[Gottfried von Strassburg]], [[Prose Tristan|Prose ''Tristan'']], [[Post-Vulgate Cycle]], ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'' |[[King Mark]]'s son or relative, [[Iseult]]'s lover. |- |scope="row"| [[Urien]] |Uriens | Historical figure |[[Welsh Triads]] |King of [[Rheged]] (or Gorre), father of Yvain ([[Owain mab Urien]]) and husband of [[Morgan le Fay]]. |- |scope="row"| [[Yvain]] | (Welsh: ''[[Owain mab Urien|Owain]]'') Ywain, Ewain or Uwain | Based on the historical figure [[Owain mab Urien]] |''[[Historia Brittonum]]'', ''[[Yvain, the Knight of the Lion]]'' |King Urien's son. |- |scope="row"| [[Yvain the Bastard]] |Ywain the Adventurous, ''Uwain le Avoutres'' | | |Urien's illegitimate son. |} In addition, there are many less prominent knights. For instance, the "Healing of Sir Urry" episode in the [[Winchester Manuscript]] of ''Le Morte d'Arthur'' lists, in addition to many of the above, the following:<ref>[[Thomas Malory]]'s ''[[Le Morte D'Arthur]]'', the Winchester Manuscript. Edited and abridged by Helen Cooper, this book was published by [[Oxford University Press]] in 1998.</ref> {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * * [[#Galeschin|Duke Chalance of Clarence]] * Earl Aristance * Earl of Lambaile (known as the Count of Lambale in French romances; also Lambayle, Lambelle, etc.) * Earl Ulbawes * [[Anguish of Ireland|King Anguish of Ireland]] * King Claryaunce of Northumberland (Clarion) * [[#Nentres|King Nentres of Garlot]] * Sir Arrok * Sir Ascamore * Sir Barrant le Apres (also known as the [[#King of a Hundred Knights|King of/with a/the Hundred Knights]]) * Sir Bellenger le Beau (Bellinger le Beuse, Bellangre the Bewse; son of Alisuander le Orphelin / Alexander the Orphan, slayer of King Mark and supporter of Lancelot) * Sir Belliance le Orgulous * Sir Blamor de Ganis (Blamour, brother of Bleoberis) * [[#Bleoberis|Sir Bleoberis de Ganis]] * [[#Lohot|Sir Bohart le Cure Hardy]] * [[#Brandelis|Sir Brandiles]] * Sir Bryan de Les Iles (Brian de Listinoise) * Sir Cardok * Sir Claryus of Cleremont (Clarius) * [[#Cligès|Sir Clegis]] * Sir Clodrus * Sir Crosselm * Sir Damas (reformed co-conspirator of Morgan in the Accolon-Excalibur plot) * Sir Degrave sans Villainy (fought with the giant of the Black Lowe) * Sir Degrevant * Sir Dinas * Sir Dinas le Seneschal de Cornwall * [[#Dodinel|Sir Dodinas le Savage]] * [[#Drian|Sir Dornar]] * [[#Drian|Sir Driaunt]] * Sir Edward of Orkney (of Caernarfon) * Sir Epinogris (son of King Clariance) * Sir Fergus * Sir Florence (son of Gawain by Sir Brandiles' sister) * Sir Gahalantyne * [[#Galehodin|Sir Galahodin]] * Sir Galleron of Galway (a Scottish knight from the English Arthurian tradition, also spelled Galaron or Geleron) * Sir Gautere (Gauter, Gaunter) * Sir Gillimere (or Gillimer, not to be confused with similarly named three different Kings of Ireland in early Arthurian chronicles) * Sir Grommer Grummorson (Gromer) * Sir Gumret le Petit (Gwyarte le Petite) * [[#Erec|Sir Harry le Fils Lake]] * Sir Hebes (not Hebes le Renowne) * Sir Hebes le Renowne * Sir Hectymere * Sir Herminde * Sir Hervyse de la Forest Savage * [[Red Knight|Sir Ironside]] (Knight of the Red Launds) * Sir Kay l'Estrange (different than [[Sir Kay|Kay le Seneschal]]) * Sir Lambegus * Sir Lamiel * Sir Lavain (son of Barnard of [[Ascolat]]) * Sir Lovell (another son of Gawain by Sir Brandiles' sister) * [[#Mador de la Porte|Sir Mador de la Porte]] (brother of [[#Gaheris of Karahau|Gaheris of Karahau]]) * Sir Marrok (whose wife turned him into a werewolf, see also [[Melion]]) * [[#Melian|Sir Melias de Lile]] * Sir Melion of the Mountain * Sir Meliot de Logris * Sir Menaduke * [[#Yvain the Bastard|Sir Morganore]] * Sir Neroveous * [[#Osenain|Sir Ozanna le Cure Hardy]] * [[Red Knight|Sir Perimones]] (brother to Persant and Pertolepe; called the Red Knight) * Sir Pertolepe * Sir Petipace of Winchelsea * Sir Plaine de Fors (Playne) * Sir Plenorius * [[#Priamus|Sir Priamus]] * Sir Pursuant of Inde (or Persant; also known as the Blue Knight) * Sir Reynold * Sir Sadok * Sir Selises of the Dolorous Tower * Sir Sentrail * Sir Severause le Breuse (or Severauce, known for rejecting battles with men in favour of giants, dragons, and wild beasts) * Sir Suppinabiles (Cornish knight Supinabel from the French Tristan legend) * Sir Urry of Hungary (this story's original character and plot device, cursed by a spell of Spanish duchess for killing her son) * Sir Villiars the Valiant{{div col end}} Conversely, the [[Winchester Round Table]] features only the knights Sir ''Alynore'' (Alymere), Sir ''Bedwere'' (Bedivere), Sir Blubrys (Bleoberis), Sir ''Bors Deganys'' (Bors de Ganis), Sir ''Brumear'' (Brunor le Noir), Sir Dagonet, Sir Degore, Sir ''Ectorde Marys'' (Ector de Maris), Sir ''Galahallt'' (Galahault or Galahad), Sir ''Garethe'' (Gareth), Sir ''Gauen'' (Gawain), Sir Kay, Sir Lamorak, Sir ''Launcelot Deulake'' (Lancelot du Lac), Sir ''Lacotemale Tayle'' (La Cote Male Taile), Sir ''Lucane'' (Lucan), Sir ''Lybyus Dysconyus'' (Le Bel Desconneu), Sir ''Lyonell'' (Lionel), Sir ''Mordrede'' (Mordred), Sir ''Plomyde'' (Palomedes), Sir ''Pelleus'' (Pelleas), Sir ''Percyvale'' (Percival), Sir ''Safer'' (Safir), and Sir ''Trystram Delyens'' (Tristram de Lyones), for the total of merely 24 (not counting Arthur).<ref>Martin Biddle, Sally Badham, A.C. Barefoot, ''Round Table: An Archaeological Investigation'', pp. 255–260.</ref>
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