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Mordred or Modred (/ ˈ m ɔːr d r ɛ d / or / ˈ m oʊ d r ɛ d /; Welsh: Medraut or Medrawt) is a major figure in the legend of King Arthur.The earliest known mention of a possibly historical Medraut is in the Welsh chronicle Annales Cambriae, wherein he and Arthur are ambiguously associated with the Battle of Camlann in a brief entry for the year 537.
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.
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
Mordred is a major exception to this tradition of a childless death for Arthur's sons. Mordred, like Amr, is killed by Arthur – at Camlann – according to Geoffrey of Monmouth and the post-Galfridian tradition but, unlike the others, he is ascribed two sons , both of whom rose against Arthur's successor and cousin Constantine III with the ...
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 ...
Son of King Lot and Morgause, brother to Gawain, Agravaine, and Gareth, and half-brother to Mordred. 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. 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.
The act of Mordred's conception is described variably in the different works of Arthurian romance. In the Vulgate Merlin, the episode takes place earlier, back when a young teenage Arthur was only a mere squire to his foster-brother Kay (prior to the fateful drawing of the sword in the stone) and completely oblivious about his true heritage ...