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Lancelot's name appears third on a list of knights at King Arthur's court in the earliest known work featuring him as a character: Chrétien de Troyes' Old French poem Erec and Enide (1170). The fact that his name follows Gawain and Erec indicates the presumed importance of the knight at court, even though he did not figure prominently in ...
Courtly love was coined by the medievalist Gaston Paris in 1883 to help understand the relationship between Lancelot and Guinevere in Lancelot, The Knight of the Cart. Alexander J. Denomy describes courtly love as, "… a type of sensual love and what distinguishes it from other forms of sexual love, from mere passion… is its purpose or ...
The King with the Hundred Knights (Old French: Roi des Cent Chevaliers, sometimes translated as the "King of the Hundred Knights") is a moniker commonly used in for a character that has appeared under different given names in various works of Arthurian romance, including as Malaguin (Aguignier, Aguigens, Aguigniez, Aguysans, Alguigines ...
Lancelot later returns to surrender, and when he professes his chaste love for Guinevere, Arthur revokes their death sentence. Infuriated, Modred turns the other knights against Arthur, leading to a return of civil war. A truce is briefly agreed upon but collapses when a knight draws his sword to kill a snake, sparking the Battle of Camlann.
Sir Lancelot, while going to save her, loses his horse due to attacking archers. His armor is too heavy to walk in, so he leaves it behind. The fastest option for Lancelot to reach Mellegrans' castle is to ride in a cart, causing much shame to him. Lancelot is successful in saving Guinevere, but continues to be ridiculed for riding in the cart.
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights: A maid from Queen Ettarre's court who helps Sir Pelleas Pellam: King Pellam of Listeneise, Pellehan see Fisher King: Pelleas† Pellias Post-Vulgate Cycle, 1230s Le Morte d'Arthur, Idylls of the King: A Knight of the Round table in love with Ettarre, later lover of Nimue Pelles: see Fisher King ...
Maleagant's abduction of Guinevere depicted in a 14th-century fresco in Siedlęcin Tower. Maleagant (spelled Meliagant or Meliaganz) first appears under that name in Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart by Chrétien de Troyes, where he is said to be the son of King Bagdemagus, ruler of the otherworldly realm of Gorre (the Land of No Return), and brings the abducted Guinevere to his impenetrable ...
Lancelot-Grail, a volume of medieval French works that are a major source of Arthurian legend; Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, a 12th-century poem by Chretien de Troyes; Lancelot, a 1978 novel by Walker Percy; Lancelot du Lac, a 1974 film directed by Robert Bresson "Lancelot" , an episode of the 2008 BBC TV series