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Knights of the Round Table were those men awarded the highest order of Chivalry at the Court of King Arthur in the literary cycle the Matter of Britain. The table at which they met was created to have no head or foot, representing the equality of all the members. Different stories had different numbers of knights, ranging from only 12 to 150 or more. The Winchester Round Table, which dates from the 1270s, lists 25 names of knights.

Sir Thomas Malory describes the Knights' code of chivalry as:

To never do outrage nor murder
Always to flee treason
To by no means be cruel but to give mercy unto him who asks for mercy
To always do ladies, gentlewomen and widows succor
To never force ladies, gentlewomen or widows
Not to take up battles in wrongful quarrels for love or worldly goods

1 Origins of the Round Table
2 List of Knights
- 2.1 Additional knights
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

Origins of the Round Table

The first writer to describe the Round Table was Wace, whose Roman de Brut was an elaboration of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. The actual table itself was round to represent that each knight was of equal value to the king and thus there was no 'head' of the table, although one understood that Arthur's place was 'the head.' In later writings, the table was said to be a gift to King Arthur from his father-in-law, King Leodogran of Cameliard, as a wedding gift upon the marriage of Arthur to Guinevere.

The company was used by many subsequent authors. However, even the earliest writers ascribe to Arthur a following of extraordinary warriors. In Geoffrey, Arthur's court attracts the greatest heroes from all of Europe. In the Welsh Arthurian material, much of which is included in the Mabinogion, Arthur's men are attributed with great abilities. Some of the characters from the Welsh material even appear under altered names as Knights of the Round Table in the continental romances, the most notable of which are Cai (Sir Kay), Bedwyr (Sir Bedivere), and Gwalchmai (Sir Gawain).

List of Knights

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Sir Aglovale, son of King Pellinore of Listinoise
Sir Agravaine, son of King Lot of Orkney+
Sir Anselm, son of Lord Valette
King Bagdemagus
Sir Bedivere (Bedwyr), throws Excalibur back into the lake when Arthur dies
Sir Bors, King of Gannes (Gaul)
Sir Breunor, also known as "La Cote Mal Taillée"
Sir Cador
Sir Caradoc, called "Caradoc Vreichvras", or "Caradoc Strong Arm"
Sir Colgrevance
Sir Constantine, son of Cador, who became king after Arthur's death
Sir Dagonet, the court jester
Sir Dinadan, son of Sir Brunor Senior and brother of Sirs Brunor le Noir 'La Cote Mal Taillée' and Daniel.
Sir Ector, Arthur's foster father and Sir Kay's father
Sir Ector de Maris, the son of King Ban of Benwick
Sir Elyan the White, the son of Sir Bors
Sir Erec, (see also Geraint)
Sir Gaheris
Sir Galahad (son of Lancelot; his seat was the Siege Perilous)
Sir Galehaut, friend of Lancelot
Sir Galeschin (son of Elaine and King Nentres)
Sir Gareth, also called Beaumains or Goodhands
Sir Gawain (Gawaine, Walganus, Balbhuaidh, Gwalchmai)
Sir Geraint (see also Erec)

Sir Gingalain, called at first Sir Le Bel Inconnu ("The "Fair Unknown"), Gawain's son
Sir Griflet, also called Sir Griflet le Fils de Dieu
King Hoel
Sir Kay (Cai, Caius), Arthur's stepbrother, son of Sir Ector
Sir Lamorak, son of Pellinore
Sir Lancelot (Launcelot du Lac, father of Sir Galahad)
King Leodegrance, Guinevere's father and keeper of the Round Table
Sir Lionel
Sir Lucan
Sir Maleagant, who abducted Guinevere
Sir Meliant de Lis
Sir Mordred, Arthur's illegitimate son and destroyer of the kingdom
Sir Morholt
Sir Palamedes the Saracen
Sir Pelleas, husband of the Lady of the Lake
King Pellinore
Sir Percival (Perceval, Peredur), son of Pellinore
Sir Sagramore le Desirous
Sir Safir, brother of Palamedes
Sir Segwarides, brother of Palamedes
Sir Tor
Sir Tristram
King Uriens
Sir Ywain (Owain), son of King Uriens of Gore
Sir Ywain the Bastard, also son of Uriens

Additional knights

In addition, Malory's account includes many obscure knights during the episode containing Sir Urry:

King Angwish of Ireland

Earl Aristance
Sir Azreal
Sir Arrok
Sir Ascamore
Sir Balan (brother of Sir Balin, whom he killed by accident in a duel in which both wore helmets and did not know who they were fighting)
Sir Balin (brother of Sir Balan, whom he killed by accident in a duel in which both wore helmets and did not know who they were fighting)
Sir Barrant le Apres (King with a Hundred Knights)
Sir Bellenger le Beau
Sir Belliance le Orgulous
Sir Blamor de Ganis
Sir Bleoberis de Ganis
Sir Borre le Cœur Hardi (King Arthur's son)
Sir Brandiles
Sir Brian de Listinoise
King Carados of Scotland
Sir Cardok
Duke Chalance of Clarence
King Clariance of Northumberland
Sir Clarus of Cleremont
Sir Clegis
Sir Clodrus
Sir Colgrevance
Sir Crosslem
Sir Damas
Sir Degrave sans Villainy (fought with the giant of the Black Lowe)

Sir Degrevant
Sir Dinas le Seneschal de Cornwall
Sir Dinas
Sir Dodinas le Savage
Sir Dornar
Sir Driant
Sir Edward of Caernarvon
Sir Edward of Orkney
Sir Epinogris (son of King Clariance of Northumberland)
Sir Fergus
Sir Florence (son of Gawain by Sir Brandiles's sister)
Sir Gahalantine
Sir Galahalt (a duke known as the Haut Prince)
Sir Galihodin
Sir Galleron of Galway
Sir Gauter
Sir Gillimer
Sir Grummor Grummorson
Sir Gumret le Petit
Sir Harry le Fils Lake
Sir Hebes (not Hebes le Renowne)
Sir Hebes le Renowne
Sir Hectimere
Sir Helian le Blanc
Sir Herminde
Sir Hervis de la Forest Savage
Sir Ironside (Knight of the Red Launds)
Sir Kay l'Estrange (not Kay, Arthur's seneschal)
Earl Lambaile
Sir Lambegus
Sir Lamiel of Cardiff
Sir Lavain
Sir Lovell (son of Gawain by Sir Brandiles's sister)
Sir Lucan the Butler
Sir Mador de la Porte
Sir Marrok (whose wife turned him into a werewolf)
Sir Melias de l'Isle
Sir Melion of the Mountain

Sir Meliot de Logris
Sir Menaduke
Sir Morganor
King Nentres of Garlot
Sir Neroveus
Sir Ozanna le Cœur Hardi
Sir Perimones (brother to Persant and Pertolepe; called the Red Knight)
Sir Persant
Sir Pertolepe
Sir Petipace of Winchelsea
Sir Plaine de Fors
Sir Plenorius
Sir Priamus
Sir Reynold
Sir Sadok
Sir Selises of the Dolorous Tower
Sir Sentrail
Sir Severause le Breuse (known for rejecting battles with men in favour of giants, dragons, and wild beasts)
Sir Suppinabiles
Earl Ulbawes
Sir Urry
Sir Uwain le Avoutres
Sir Villiars the Valiant

References

Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur, the Winchester Manuscript. Edited and abridged by Helen Cooper, this book was published by Oxford University Press in 1998.

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Knights of the Round Table

Contents

Origins of the Round Table

List of Knights

Additional knights

References

See also

External links