However, in the late 15th century, Thomas Malory created the image of Camelot most familiar to English speakers today in his Le Morte d ' Arthur, a work based mostly on the French romances.

Ystin is clearly a Celtic mythology version of the original Shining Knight ( who was based more on the quasi-medieval setting of Sir Thomas Malory ).

Later in the Post-Vulgate, the Prose Tristan and the sections of Malory based on those works, the Saracen knight Sir Palamedes hunts the Questing Beast.

Many modern takes on the Arthurian legend have their roots in Malory, including John Boorman's 1981 movie Excalibur, which includes selected elements of the book.

King Arthur's encounter with the giant of St Michael's Mount-or Mont Saint Michel in Brittany-was related by Geoffrey of Monmouth in Historia Regum Britanniae in 1136, and published by Sir Thomas Malory in 1485 in the fifth chapter of the fifth book of Le Morte d ' Arthur: Then came to Arthur an husbandman ... and told him how there was ... a great giant which had slain, murdered and devoured much people of the country ... journeyed to the Mount, discovered the giant roasting dead children, ... and hailed him, saying ... rise and dress thee, thou glutton, for this day shalt thou die of my hand.

Thomas Malory mostly follows the portrayal of Morgan in the Vulgate and Post-Vulgate Cycles in his book Le Morte d ' Arthur, though he expands her role in some cases.

" Based on a more exhaustive study of the manuscript alongside Caxton's edition, Vinaver reached similar conclusions, and in his 1947 edition The Works of Sir Thomas Malory argued that Malory had in fact not written a single book, but produced a series of Arthurian tales which were internally consistent and independent works.

In this first book, Malory addresses 15th century preoccupations with legitimacy and societal unrest, which will appear throughout the rest of the work.

This story seems unengaged with the problems that Malory addresses elsewhere in the text: there is no known source for this book, and in other tales, knights are always interacting with other knights from the Round Table, but not here.

The book ends with Lancelot's healing of Sir Urry of Hungary, where Malory notes that Lancelot is the only knight out of hundreds to be successful in this endeavor.

Thomas Malory reworked the Post-Vulgate story in the first book of his Le Morte d ' Arthur.

* Thomas Malory ( c. 1399-1471 ), compiler of Le Morte d ' Arthur, a book of French and English Arthurian romances

In 1894, MacCallum published a book Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Arthurian Story from the 16th century in which he traced the Arthurian story from its ' Brythonic ' origins through Thomas Malory and up to its final phase in Lord Tennyson.

Examples of this type are the Malory Towers stories, the St Clare's series, and the Naughtiest Girl books and are typical of the times — many comics of the day also contained similar types of story.

Le Morte d ' Arthur ( originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for " the death of Arthur ") is a compilation by Sir Thomas Malory of Romance tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, and the Knights of the Round Table.

" He called the full work The hoole booke of kyng Arthur & of his noble knyghtes of the rounde table, but Caxton instead titled the publication with the name Malory gave to the final section of the cycle.

In the fifteenth century, Sir Thomas Malory shortened this French version into his own take, The Book of Sir Tristram de Lyones, found in his Le Morte D ' Arthur.

* Hardyment, Christina, Malory: The Life and Times of King Arthur's Chronicler, Harper Collins, 2005, ISBN 0-06-620981-1

* Sir Thomas Malory – highwayman, possible author of Le Morte d ' Arthur, a saga about King Arthur

Sir Thomas Malory, in Le Morte d ’ Arthur ( 1485 ), depicts King Arthur as being reluctantly constrained to order the burning of Queen Guinevere, once her adultery with Lancelot was revealed, as a Queen ’ s adultery would be construed as treason against her royal husband.

In the Post-Vulgate Cycle and Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur, it is Morgan le Fay who becomes the wife of King Urien and mother of Ywain ( and Malory adds this information ).

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 Malory, King Pelles has already received magical foreknowledge that Lancelot will give his daughter a child and that this little boy will grow to become the greatest knight in the world, the knight chosen by God to achieve the Holy Grail.

Thomas Malory was imprisoned in the Ludgate prison in the 1460s, and translated a French life of King Arthur while he was there.

Many modern Arthurian writers have used Malory as their principal source, including T. H. White for his popular The Once and Future King and Tennyson for The Idylls of the King.

In this tale, Malory establishes Lancelot as King Arthur's most revered knight.

After the passing of King Arthur, Malory provides a denouement, mostly following the lives ( and deaths ) of Guinevere, Lancelot, and Lancelot's kinsmen.

John Steinbeck used the Winchester Manuscripts of Thomas Malory and other sources as the original text for The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights in 1976.

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: From the Winchester Manuscripts of Thomas Malory and Other Sources.

He owes his existence to a mistake by Malory, who took the Old French roy Peschour (" Fisher King ", a phrase that Malory never otherwise uses ) for a name rather than an epithet.

It would appear that Malory intended to have one Maimed King, wounded by Balin and suffering until healed by his grandson Galahad, but never managed to successfully reconcile his sources.

In The Once and Future King by T. H. White, it is again Agravain, not Gaheris as in Malory, who murders their own mother, in addition to being the " bully " of the family, and killing a unicorn in their childhoods.

Thomas Malory sometimes spells his name " Urience ", which has led some ( e. g. Alfred Tennyson ) to identify him with King Rience.

The best example of this is Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King, which blended the stories of King Arthur, particularly those by Thomas Malory, with contemporary concerns and ideas.

Malory records both versions of the legend in his Le Morte d ' Arthur, and confusingly calls both swords Excalibur.

Galahad and the interpretation of the Grail involving him were picked up in the 15th century by Sir Thomas Malory in Le Morte d ' Arthur, and remain popular today.

Sir Thomas Malory ( c. 1405 – 14 March 1471 ) was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d ' Arthur.

Most of what is known about Malory stems from the accounts describing him in the prayers found in the Winchester Manuscript, distinguishing him from the other six individuals also bearing the name Thomas Malory in the 15th century when Le Morte d ' Arthur was written.

* Sir Thomas Malory ( – March 14, 1471 ) was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d ' Arthur.

* Sir Thomas Malory of England ( 1405 ?– 1471 ), soldier, member of Parliament, political prisoner, and author of Le Morte d ' Arthur

* Malory, Sir Thomas ( 1470 ) Le Morte D ' Arthur

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

* Le Morte D ' Arthur by Thomas Malory has the Knights of the Round Table witness a divine vision of the Holy Grail on a Whitsunday, prompting their quest to find its true location.

In Malory she is sentenced to be burnt at the stake but is rescued by Lancelot ; in the Idylls Guinevere flees to a convent, is forgiven by Arthur, repents, and serves in the convent until she dies.

Danielle MacBain ’ s study of Thomas Malory ’ s “ Le Morte d ’ Arthur ,” claims Lancelot ’ s affair with Guinevere is often seen as parallel to that of Tristram, or Tristan, and Iseult.

Even Malory, who depicts Mordred as a villain, notes that the people of England rallied to him because, " with Arthur was none other life but war and strife, and with Sir Mordred was great joy and bliss ".

Geoffrey makes Arthur's capital Caerleon and even Sir Thomas Malory has Arthur re-crowned there.

* Le Morte d ' Arthur by Thomas Malory: " There sat a knight all armed in black harness, and his name was the Knight of the Black Laund.

Sir Thomas Malory also uses both Ladies of the Lake in his Le Morte d ' Arthur ; he leaves the first one unnamed and calls the second one Nimue.

Sir Thomas Malory included many in Le Morte d ' Arthur.

Beardsley's first commission was Le Morte d ' Arthur by Thomas Malory ( 1893 ), which he illustrated for the publishing house J. M. Dent and Company.