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Sir Tristram (7 April 1971 – 21 May 1997) [1] was an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who stood at stud in New Zealand, where he sired an extraordinary 45 Group One winners, including three Melbourne Cup winners. His progeny earned him 17 official Leading Australasian sire premierships, plus nine broodmare sire titles.
Tristan (Latin/Brythonic: Drustanus; Welsh: Trystan), also known as Tristram, Tristyn or Tristain and similar names, is the folk hero of the legend of Tristan and Iseult. [1] In the legend, his objective is escorting the Irish princess Iseult to wed Tristan's uncle, King Mark of Cornwall .
The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions The Story of the Champions of the Round Table is a 1905 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle . The book consists of many Arthurian legends, including those concerning of the young Sir Launcelot , Sir Tristram , and Sir Percival .
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Tristram's Woodpecker, a bird; Tristram's starling or Tristram's grackle, a bird; Tristram's jird, a species of gerbil; Sir Tristram (1971–1997), a Thoroughbred racehorse and sire; RFA Sir Tristram (L3505), a Landing Ship Logistics of the Round Table class; Tristam (disambiguation) Tristan (disambiguation)
Thomas Malory's The Book of Sir Tristram de Lyones is the only other medieval handling of the Tristan legend in English. Malory provided a shortened translation of the French Prose Tristan and included it in his Arthurian romance compilation Le Morte d'Arthur. In Malory's version, Tristram is the son of the King of Lyonesse.
The Vulgate Cycle also features a different Knight of the Round Table other than Sir Brandeliz, a minor character of Duke Brandelis de Taningues (Brandeban, Brandeharz, Brandelz, -de Tranurgor). Yet another Knight of the Round Table named Brandelis ( Brandelis le fils Lac , that is "son of Lac ") appears as brother of Erec in Palamedes and the ...
The name owes its popularity to the character of Tristan, one of the Knights of the Round Table and the tragic hero of Tristan and Iseult. Alternate form Tristram has also been in use since the Middle Ages [ 2 ] and was the more usual form of the name after the publication of the 1759-60 comic novel Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne .