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In the Arthurian chivalric romance tradition from the Vulgate Cycle, she is the daughter of the Fisher King, King Pelles of Corbenic, and the mother of Galahad by Lancelot, whose repeated rape by her results in his descent into madness. She should not be confused with Elaine of Astolat, a different woman who too fell in love with Lancelot.
Lancelot's passion for Arthur's wife Guinevere is entirely absent from another early work, Lanzelet, a Middle High German epic poem by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven dating from the very end of the 12th century (no earlier than 1194). Ulrich asserts that his poem is a translation of an earlier work from a "French book" he had obtained, assuring the ...
The Parting of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere. 1874 photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron published in Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Other Poems (1875). Modern adaptations of Arthurian legend vary greatly in their depiction of Guinevere, largely because certain aspects of her story must be fleshed out by the modern author.
Elaine of Astolat. Lady Elaine of Astolat (a common mistake misspelling of "Ascolat" [ 1 ]) or Elaine the Fair is a maiden daughter of the lord of Astolat (Ascolat, Escalot). She falls in unrequited love with Sir Lancelot, leading to her death of sorrow. In modern times, she is also often known as " The Lady of Shalott " after the eponymous poem.
Elaine of Astolat (/ ˈæstəˌlæt, - ɑːt / [1]), also known as Elayne of Ascolat and other variants of the name, is a figure in Arthurian legend. She is a lady from the castle of Astolat who dies of her unrequited love for Sir Lancelot. Well-known versions of her story appear in Sir Thomas Malory 's 1485 book Le Morte d'Arthur, Alfred, Lord ...
Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart. Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart (French: Lancelot, le Chevalier de la charrette), is a 12th-century Old French poem by Chrétien de Troyes, although it is believed that Chrétien did not complete the text himself. It is one of the first stories of the Arthurian legend to feature Lancelot as a prominent character.
Gawain (/ ˈɡɑːweɪn ˈɡæ -, - wɪn, ɡəˈweɪn / GA (H)-wayn, -win, gə-WAYN), [1][2] also known in many other forms and spellings, is a character in Arthurian legend, in which he is King Arthur 's nephew and one of the premier Knights of the Round Table. The prototype of Gawain is mentioned under the name Gwalchmei in the earliest ...
By the end of Arthurian prose cycles (including the seminal Le Morte d'Arthur), the Round Table splits up into groups of warring factions following the revelation of Lancelot's adultery with King Arthur's wife, Queen Guinevere. In the same tradition, Guinevere is featured with her own personal order of young knights, known as the Queen's Knights.