Arthur's real mother died of grief at being separated from Arthur and Mr Clenham, but the wealthy uncle, stung by remorse, had left a bequest to Arthur's biological mother and to " the youngest daughter of her patron ", a kindly musician who had taught and befriended her — and who happened to be Amy Dorrit's paternal uncle, Frederick.

Leodegrance had served Uther Pendragon, King Arthur's biological father and regnal predecessor.

John became aware in July that Arthur's forces were threatening his mother, Eleanor, at Mirebeau Castle.

( As his mother destroyed all the letters he wrote her, Arthur's side of the story is unknown ).

Arthur's mother, Harriet, died in 1858 when Arthur was seven.

The news of Arthur's death caused Henry VII to break down in grief ; Elizabeth comforted him, telling him that he was the only child of his mother ( to whom she refers as My Lady ), that God had left him with a son and two daughters and that they were both young enough to have more children.

John further claims King Arthur was descended from Joseph, listing the following imaginative pedigree through King Arthur's mother:

In attendance are Sibyl Birling, Arthur's wife and Sheila and Eric's mother, and Eric Birling, Sheila's younger brother, who has a drinking problem that is discreetly ignored.

The English contingent arrives ; Eleanor trades insults with Constance, Arthur's mother.

Arthur's mother, Mrs Clennam, although paralysed and a wheelchair user, still runs the family business with the help of her servant Jeremiah Flintwinch and his downtrodden wife Affery.

After Hoel's death Ygraine marries the Duke of Tintagel and by him becomes mother of three more daughters: a third daughter who marries a King Briadas and becomes mother of King Angusel of Scotland ( in no other extant text made Arthur's nephew ), a fourth daughter named Hermesent who marries King Urien and becomes mother of Ywain the Great, and a fifth daughter who is Morgan le Fay.

Arthur's mother, Elizabeth of York did not attend the funeral either, and as was the custom, Catherine of Aragon also remained at home as she was still extremely ill with the same disease that had killed Arthur.

Maggie's and Arthur's relationship was presented with a fascinating complexity-Maggie's cruel attacks on and emotional manipulation of Arthur disguised her deep dependence on and need of him, and Arthur's dutiful love of Maggie was constantly in conflict with his guilty frustration at the huge limitations for his own life which looking after his mother entailed.

According to the tale told by Geoffrey, his father, King Uther Pendragon, was disguised by Merlin's sorcery to look like Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall the husband of Ygerna, Arthur's mother.

Arthur's mother, Elaine, died in childbirth and Dr. Curry was forced to use a mutagenic serum on his son when he was born three months premature.

Almost all versions of the Arthurian story have Owain as Urien's son and Arthur's nephew, and the later accounts assume his mother is Morgan le Fay, if not one of the King's other half sisters.

She is said to be the daughter of Arthur's mother, the Lady Igraine, and her first husband, Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall, so that Arthur ( son of Igraine and Uther Pendragon ) is her half-brother.

Many years later, when Max is in middle school, he finds out that Freak and his mother, Gwen ( referred to as " The Fair Gwen ", " The Fair Guinevere " or " The Fair Gwen Of Air " after King Arthur's wife ) are moving into the house next door.

It is revealed in flashback that Arthur's mother had died in a Woad attack when he was a boy.

There was excuse enough to keep him home that young Mr. Arthur's still over there ''.

For Chrétien, Arthur's chief court was in Caerleon in Wales ; this was the king's primary base in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae and subsequent literature.

One exception is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which locates Arthur's court at " Camelot "; however, in Britain, Arthur's court was generally located at Caerleon, or at Carlisle, which is usually identified with the " Carduel " of the French romances.

Renowned Arthurian scholar Ernst Brugger suggested that it was a corruption of Camlann, the site of Arthur's final battle in Welsh tradition.

This perhaps reflects the influence of widespread oral traditions common by 800 which are recorded in various place names and features such as Arthur's Seat indicating Arthur was a hero known and associated with many locations across Brittonic areas of Britain as well as Brittany.

It is unclear if the name was borrowed from the Welsh ( if so, it must have been an early loan, for phonological reasons ), or represents an early, pan-Brittonic traditional name for Arthur's sword.

In addition, when Excalibur was first drawn, in the first battle testing Arthur's sovereignty, its blade blinded his enemies.

It was finished in 1903 with the help of Arthur's brother, Walter Davidson.

With Arthur's army pressing up the Loire valley towards Angers and Philip's forces moving down the valley towards Tours, John's continental empire was in danger of being cut in two.

After this, Arthur's fate remains uncertain, but modern historians believe he was murdered by John.

Arthur's sister, Eleanor, who had also been captured at Mirebeau, was kept imprisoned by John for many years, albeit in relatively good conditions.

Certainly, Geoffrey seems to have made use of the list of Arthur's twelve battles against the Saxons found in the 9th-century Historia Brittonum, along with the battle of Camlann from the Annales Cambriae and the idea that Arthur was still alive.

Indeed, the first modernization of Malory's great compilation of Arthur's tales was published shortly after Idylls appeared, in 1862, and there were six further editions and five competitors before the century ended.

Even the humorous tale of Tom Thumb, which had been the primary manifestation of Arthur's legend in the 18th century, was rewritten after the publication of Idylls.

"... Arthur's genius lay in his ability to imagine songs, with fully formed lyrics and melodies ," wrote John Einarson in " Forever Changes: Arthur Lee and the Book of Love ," an authorized biography on Lee that was released in 2010.

It was originally attached to a cycle of prose versions of Robert's poems, which tells the story of the Holy Grail: brought from the Middle East to Britain by followers of Joseph of Arimathea, the Grail is eventually recovered by Arthur's knight Percival.

The table was first described in 1155 by Wace, who relied on previous depictions of Arthur's fabulous retinue.

" Long before Geoffrey, Arthur's court was well known to Welsh storytellers ; in the romance Culhwch and Olwen, written around 1100, the protagonist Culhwch invokes the names of 225 individuals affiliated with Arthur.

The artifacts known as the " Winchester Round Table ," a large tabletop hanging in Winchester Castle bearing the names of various knights of Arthur's court, was probably created for a Round Table tournament.

The current paintwork is late ; it was done by order of Henry VIII of England for Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's 1522 state visit, and depicts Henry himself sitting in Arthur's seat above a Tudor rose.

The first major time travel novel was Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

" This was Arthur's first encounter with Turkish people and customs.