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He is the younger brother of Gawain and Agravain, the older brother of Gareth, and half-brother of Mordred. [note 3] 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 ...
Her eldest son Gawain has been Mordred's brother already in the Historia as well as in Layamon's Brut. Besides him, Mordred's other brothers or half-brothers often appearing in literature include Agravain and Gaheris in the tradition derived from the French romances, beginning with the prose versions of Robert de Boron's poems Merlin and Perceval.
Gareth (Welsh:; Old French: Guerehet, Guerrehet) is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend. He is the youngest son of King Lot and 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.
Gauvain's attributed arms. Gawain is known by different names and variants in different languages. The character corresponds to the Welsh Gwalchmei ap Gwyar (meaning "son of Gwyar"), or Gwalchmai, and throughout the Middle Ages was known in Latin as Galvaginus, Gualgunus (Gualguanus, Gualguinus), Gualgwinus, Walwanus (Walwanius), Waluanus, Walwen, etc.; in Old French (and sometimes English ...
Son of King Lot and Morgause, brother to Gawain, Agravaine, and Gareth, and half-brother to Mordred Galahad† Lancelot-Grail, early 13th century Lancelot-Grail, Post-Vulgate Cycle, Le Morte d'Arthur, The Once and Future King: Illegitimate son of Sir Lancelot and Elaine of Corbenic Galehault† Galehalt, Galehaut Lancelot-Grail, early 13th century
Agravain [a] (/ ˈ æ. ɡ r ə. v eɪ n /) is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, whose first known appearance is in the works of Chrétien de Troyes.He is the second eldest son of King Lot of Orkney with one of King Arthur's sisters known as Anna or Morgause, thus nephew of King Arthur, and brother to Sir Gawain, Gaheris, and Gareth, as well as half-brother to Mordred.
Arthur's another sister or half-sister, known by several names including Morgause, a daughter of Gorlois and Igerna (Igraine), replaced Anna in the romances as mother of Gawain and Mordred. She and Morgan may be also joined by a third half-sister, today best known as Elaine .
A parent of Gawain's Welsh forerunner, Gwalchmei ap Gwyar (in later Welsh Arthurian literature, Gawain is synonymous with the native champion Gwalchmei), is one Gwyar. A very early Welsh Arthurian tale (considered to predate that of Geoffrey), Culhwch and Olwen, also gives Gwalchmai son of Gwyar (fab Gwyar) a brother named Gwalhafed son of Gwyar.