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The eponymous Samson the Fair from another Norse work, Samsons saga fagra, is Arthur's son as well. Rauf de Boun's 1309 Petit Brut lists Arthur's son Adeluf III as a king of Britain, also mentioning Arthur's other children Morgan le Noir (Morgan the Black) and Patrike le Rous (Patrick the Red) by an unnamed Fairy Queen. [35]
This episode, sometimes dubbed the "May Day massacre", [note 1] leads to a war between Arthur and the furious King Lot, acting on his belief that he is the biological father of Mordred. Lot dies in a battle at the hands of Arthur's vassal king Pellinore, beginning a long and deadly blood feud between the two royal families. Meanwhile, however ...
Arthur's grandfather, father to Uther Pendragon, Constans, and Ambrosius Aurelianus Constantine† Historia Regum Britanniae, c. 1136 Historia Regum Britanniae, Le Morte d'Arthur: Arthur's nephew and successor to his throne, Cador's son Culhwch: Culhwch and Olwen, c. 11th century Cousin of Arthur's in early Welsh legend (King) Cynric of Wessex
In Bernard Cornwell's The Warlord Chronicles, Uther is the King of Dumnonia as well as the High King of Britain. In these novels, Arthur is his illegitimate son and Morgan is his illegitimate daughter. At the start of the trilogy's first novel The Winter King, Uther is old and in failing health. His son Mordred has been killed during a battle ...
The killing of Arthur's loyal knights, including some of the king's own relatives, sets in motion the events leading to the treason by Mordred and the disappearance and apparent death of Arthur. The civil war between Arthur and Lancelot was introduced in the Vulgate Mort Artu , where it replaced the great Roman War taking place at the end of ...
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.
Pellinor's attributed arms. Pellinore is a major figure in the 13th-century Post-Vulgate prose cycle and the sections of Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur based on it. There, as son of King Pellam and brother of Kings Pelles (the Fisher King) and Alain, he is most famous for his endless hunt of the Questing Beast, which he is tracking when King Arthur first meets him.
Morgan le Fay (/ ˈ m ɔːr ɡ ən l ə ˈ f eɪ /; Welsh and Cornish: Morgen; with le Fay being garbled French la Fée, thus meaning 'Morgan the Fairy'), alternatively known as Morgan[n]a, Morgain[a/e], Morgant[e], Morg[a]ne, Morgayn[e], Morgein[e], and Morgue[in] among other names and spellings, is a powerful and ambiguous enchantress from the legend of King Arthur, in which most often she ...