Galahad, illegitimate son of Lancelot and Elaine, the world's greatest knight and the Grail Bearer at the castle of Corbenic, is destined to achieve the Grail, his spiritual purity making him a greater warrior than even his illustrious father.

As per her request, her father and brothers put her on a barge with a note to Lancelot and Guinevere.

While Lancelot is an infant, his father is driven from his kingdom, seen in Britain, by his enemy Claudas de la Deserte.

Addison was born in Milston, Wiltshire, but soon after his birth his father, Lancelot Addison, was appointed Dean of Lichfield and the Addison family moved into the cathedral close.

Upon reaching adulthood, Galahad is reunited with his father Sir Lancelot, who knights him.

The poem begins with Sir Lancelot attending a banquet given by King Pellas, the father of Elaine.

In John Erskine's novel Galahad: Enough of his life to Explain his Reputation, Galahad ’ s main tutor for his knightly training is not his father Lancelot or King Arthur, but in fact Queen Guinevere.

In Arthur Rex, however, Galahad is killed in a battle where he mistakes his own father Lancelot for a Saxon.

There are several related characters in the role which include giving King Arthur his sword Excalibur, enchanting Merlin, and raising Lancelot after the death of his father.

Lancelot and Galahad are portrayed as having similar ages, whereas according to traditional versions they are father and son respectively ( the film's approach is also found in modern Arthurian fiction — such as Bernard Cornwell's The Warlord Chronicles, in which they are brothers ).

Vanora is believed to be an early identity of Guenevere ; the Vanora of the film is also some-time mistress to fellow Sarmatian knight Lancelot ( Ioan Gruffudd ), who is strongly hinted to be the father of Bors ' youngest child, and possibly others ( for example Gilly, the eldest ), as they have dark hair whereas neither of their parents do.

He is the father of Sir Lancelot and Sir Hector de Maris, the brother of King Bors, and an early ally of King Arthur.

Her father was Clarence Lancelot " Buster " Noble ( 1 March 1913 – 1990 ), a comedian and singer ; her mother was Helen De Paul ( born Helen McGoulrick, 1921 – 2007 ), an entertainer, singer, dancer and comedienne on the Tivoli circuit.

His father, Lancelot " Lance " De Giberne Sieveking was an early BBC radio and television drama pioneer, and his half-brother Gale De Giberne Sieveking was an archaeologist.

Nicholas Clay, who played Lancelot in John Boorman's 1981 film Excalibur, has a small role as Guinevere's father, Lord Leo.

When their father dies in battle against King Claudas, Lionel and Bors are rescued by the Lady of the Lake and raised in her underwater kingdom alongside her foster-son Lancelot.

Holland was feeling unwell in the early summer of 1806, on the 13th June he had a seizure and his son Lancelot made this entry in his diary on the 17th June, ' My poor father breathed his last about 7 o ' clock in the morning.

After his father was killed by foreign agents, Lancelot was adopted by a farm couple and raised as their son.

* Lancelot Ridley divinity rector of Stretham and father of Mark Ridley,

Like his father and the rest of his family, Elyan helps his cousin Lancelot rescue Guinevere after their affair is exposed, and joins him in exile.

* The Lancelot section of the vast Vulgate Cycle, which introduces the new Grail hero, Galahad.

From the perspective of Arthur, perhaps the most significant effect of this great outpouring of new Arthurian story was on the role of the king himself: much of this 12th-century and later Arthurian literature centres less on Arthur himself than on characters such as Lancelot and Guenevere, Perceval, Galahad, Gawain, and Tristan and Isolde.

Writers and poets like Taliesin, Chrétien de Troyes and Thomas Malory wrote tales of derring-do featuring Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot and Galahad.

Individual poems detail the deeds of various knights, including Lancelot, Geraint, Galahad, and Balin and Balan, and also Merlin and the Lady of the Lake.

Galahad, he says, will see the Grail, and perhaps Percivale and Lancelot also, but the other knights are better suited to physical service than spiritual.

Upon his return to court, Lancelot takes part in the Grail Quest with Percival and Galahad, though as an adulterer and a man minded of earthly honours that have come with his knightly prowess, he is only allowed a glimpse of the Grail itself.

Sir Galahad first appears in the Lancelot – Grail cycle, and his story is taken up in later works such as the Post-Vulgate Cycle and Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur.

The circumstances surrounding the conception of the boy Galahad are explained by Sir Thomas Malory and derive from the Lancelot-Grail cycle: Elaine, the daughter of King Pelles, the Grail King, uses magic to trick Sir Lancelot into thinking that she is Queen Guinevere, whom Lancelot loves.

According to the thirteenth century Old French Prose Lancelot ( part of the interconnected set of romances known as the Vulgate Cycle ) " Galahad " was Lancelot's original name, but it was changed when he was a child.

De Beverly says that “ High God was urging him to this ”; he claims that God is behind the union of Lancelot and Elaine because He knows that from it Galahad will be born.

When Galahad arrives at the court, Guinevere is upset with Lancelot because he does not want to be her lover anymore and she takes an interest in the young knight, persuading him to go above and beyond regular knightly duties.

In part, “ Galahad ’ s virtue is a compensation for Lancelot ’ s indiscretion .” However Cohen, instead of glorifying Galahad's virtuous character, makes it into a weakness.

Just as Sir Galahad is about to be seduced by a hundred beautiful maidens, Sir Lancelot enters and rescues a very-reluctant-to-be-rescued Sir Galahad.

Galahad's conception is later glossed by Malory: " And so by enchantment won the love of Sir Lancelot, and certainly she loved him again passing well .” Galahad was conceived for the divine purpose of seeking the Holy Grail.

This poem gives details regarding how Elaine, daughter of King Pellas, receives a magic ring that will trick Lancelot into sleeping with her and conceiving Galahad.

Explores the varying speculation gravitating around a potential homosexual relationship between Galahad and Lancelot.

This story cycle recounts multiple quests, in multiple variants, telling stories both of the heroes who succeed, like Percival ( in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival ) or Sir Galahad ( in the Queste del Saint Graal ), and also the heroes who fail, like Sir Lancelot.

The castle is mentioned for the first time in Chrétien de Troyes ' poem Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, dating to the 1170s, though it does not appear in all the manuscripts.

In several early French works such as Chrétien de Troyes ' Perceval, the Story of the Grail and the Vulgate Lancelot Proper section, Excalibur is used by Gawain, Arthur's nephew and one of his best knights.

In contrast, Lancelot Andrewes and others held that episcopal government is derived from Christ via the apostles.

Lake LaVerne is the home of two mute swans named Sir Lancelot and Elaine, donated to Iowa State by VEISHEA 1935.

Albéniz never completed Lancelot ( only the first act is finished, as a vocal and piano score ), and he never began Guinevere, the final part.

The romance tradition of Arthur is particularly evident and, according to critics, successfully handled in Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac ( 1974 ), Eric Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois ( 1978 ) and perhaps John Boorman's fantasy film Excalibur ( 1981 ); it is also the main source of the material utilised in the Arthurian spoof Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ).

Nyrop notes the poetical stories of the " redeeming power of the kiss are to be found in the literature of many countries, especially, for example, in the Old French Arthurian romances ( Lancelot, Guiglain, Tirant le blanc ) in which the princess is changed by evil arts into a dreadful dragon, and can only resume her human shape in the case of a knight being brave enough to kiss her.

# courtly love chivalry, in which a knight's chief duty is to his own lady, and after her, all ladies, as exemplified by Sir Lancelot in his love for Queen Guinevere or Sir Tristan in his love for Iseult

* Fawley Court is a red-brick building designed by Christopher Wren for William Freeman ( 1684 ) with subsequent interior remodelling by James Wyatt and landscaping by Lancelot " Capability " Brown.

Lancelot Speed's cartoon work is the source of the nickname for the colourful commander of the WWII Special Forces unit " Popski's Private Army ".

When Lancelot arrives later, she is instantly smitten, and they soon consummate the adultery that will bring about Arthur's fall.

However, Arthur is not aware of their relationship or adultery for quite a while, until at a feast when he realizes that neither Lancelot nor Guinevere is there.

Their affair is exposed by two of King Lot's sons, Agravain and Mordred, and Lancelot flees for his life while Arthur reluctantly sentences his queen to burn at the stake.

Chrétien de Troyes tells yet another version of Guinevere's abduction, this time by Meleagant ( whose name is possibly derived from Melwas ) in Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart.

The abduction sequence is largely a reworking of that recorded in Caradoc's work, but here the queen's rescuer is not Arthur ( or Yder ) but Lancelot, whose adultery with the queen is dealt with for the first time in this poem.

All of these similar tales of abduction by another suitor – and this allegory includes Lancelot, who whisks her away when she is condemned to burn at the stake for their adultery – are demonstrative of a recurring Hades-snatches-Persephone theme, positing that Guinevere is like the otherworld bride Étaín, who Midir, king of the Underworld, carries off from her earthly life after she has forgotten her past.

In the series, Lancelot dies and is brought back to life by Morgana.

In fact, there are more medieval romances dedicated to narrating the adventures of Gawain than there are even to Lancelot, who is perhaps better known in popular culture today.

Gawain is mortally wounded in battle against Mordred's armies, and writes to Lancelot apologizing for his actions and asking for him to come to Britain to help defeat Mordred.