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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Half-brother to Percival; Arthur's nephew. Gaheris: Le Morte d'Arthur: 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 ...
Interestingly, "Arthur's Big Hit" also happens to be one of the more divisive episodes in the show's history, with fans criticizing Arthur for raising his fist against little sister, D.W., after ...
However, it does not mention either hers or Gawain's relation to Mordred (again described only as Arthur's nephew). According to John Fordun's 14th-century Scottish chronicle, Chronica Gentis Scotorum, Anna was the rightful heir to the throne (since Arthur was merely Uther's bastard son), and so was, consequently, hers and Lot's son Mordred ...