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Mordred, Arthur's final foe according to Geoffrey of Monmouth, illustrated by Henry Justice Ford | H. J. Ford for Andrew Lang's King Arthur: The Tales of the Round Table, 1902
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Many elements and incidents that are now an integral part of the Arthurian story appear in Geoffrey's Historia, including Arthur's father Uther Pendragon, the wizard Merlin, Arthur's wife Guinevere, the sword Excalibur, Arthur's conception at Tintagel, his final battle against Mordred at Camlann and final rest in Avalon.
It also made Mordred the result of an incestuous relationship between Arthur and his sister and established the role of Camelot, first mentioned in passing in Chrétien's Lancelot, as Arthur's primary court.
When Arthur goes to France to fight Lancelot, he leaves Guinevere in the care of Mordred, who plots to marry the queen himself and take Arthur's throne.
In the former, the character Mordred is apparently Arthur's illegitimate son in other works.
While he is absent, Guinevere is seduced by Mordred and marries him, upon which Mordred declares himself king and takes Arthur's throne ; consequently, Arthur returns to Britain and fights Mordred at the fatal Battle of Camlann.
He is almost always portrayed as the son of Arthur's sister Morgause ( or Anna ) and King Lot of Orkney and Lothian, and his brothers are Agravain, Gaheris, Gareth, and Mordred.
But when Lancelot returns to rescue Guinevere, a battle between Lancelot's and Arthur's knights ensues and Gawain's brothers, except for Mordred, are killed.
The battle between Lancelot and Arthur's knights results in Gawain's two sons and his brothers, except for Mordred, were slain.
This theme of illegitimate conception is repeated in Arthur's siring of Mordred by his own half-sister Morgause in the later prose romances.
During Arthur's absence Mordred crowns himself king and marries Guinevere, forcing Arthur to return to Britain.
Yet Geoffrey also refers to King Hoel of Brittany as Arthur's nephew and presents a prophecy that to Uther's daughter will be born a line of seven kings, something true if Hoel is Anna's son, but not true if only Gawain or Mordred are Anna's sons.
Geoffrey Ashe has also suggested a link between Riothamus ' betrayal by Arvandus and Arthur's betrayal by Mordred in the Historia Regum Britanniae.
* Mordred, Arthur's heir and enemy
Arthur's most immoral acts are the begetting of Mordred ( which is not a strong example, since Arthur had lain with a woman whom he did not know was his half-sister ) and the following mass infanticide, which only add to Arthur's shaky morality and cast Merlin in a negative light from which he never emerges.
Arthur's troops attack Mordred's, and both Arthur and Mordred die in the battle that follows.
Mordred, Arthur's illegitimate son, comes to Camelot to dishonor the King and tries to gain the throne for himself.
He was the youngest son of Lot and of Morgause, King Arthur's half-sister, thus making him Arthur's nephew, as well as brother to Gawain, Agravain, Gaheris, and half-brother to Mordred.
Triad 54 describes Medrawd ( Mordred ) raiding Arthur's court, throwing Gwenhwyfar to the ground and beating her.
Mordred and final
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Arthurian epic Idylls of the King, describes Lyonesse as the site of the final battle between Arthur and Mordred.
The last chapter of the book takes place only hours before the final battle between King Arthur and his son and nephew Mordred.
The Battle of Camlann () is reputed to have been the final battle of King Arthur, in which he either died or was fatally wounded fighting his enemy Mordred ( who was, in some later versions of the tale, his son or his nephew ).
Mordred and according
* Battle of Camlann: King Arthur figths his last battle against the forces of his rebellious son ( or nephew ) Mordred and is mortally wounded ( This according to the 10th-century Annales Cambriae ).
Mordred and Geoffrey
According to Geoffrey in the Historia and much subsequent literature which he inspired, Avalon is the place where King Arthur is taken after fighting Mordred at the Battle of Camlann to recover from his wounds.
The earliest full account of Mordred is found in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, where he, for the first time in literature, plays the role of traitor to Arthur.
Geoffrey introduced the figure of Mordred ( whom he calls Modredus ) to the world beyond Wales, detailing that Arthur left Mordred in charge of his throne as he crossed the English Channel to wage war on Emperor Lucius of Rome.
In Geoffrey and certain other sources such as the Alliterative Morte Arthure, Mordred seduces and marries Guinevere, after which he seizes the throne.
Geoffrey and the Lancelot-Grail Cycle have Mordred being succeeded by his two sons.
According to Geoffrey, Igraine also bore a daughter Anna ( referred to as Morgause in other works ) to Uther Pendragon, this Anna later becoming the mother of Gawain and Mordred.
Departing from Geoffrey of Monmouth's history in which Mordred is left in charge, Malory's Arthur leaves his court in the hands of Sir Constantine of Cornwall and an advisor.
Triad 51 reflects ( and is most likely derived from ) Geoffrey of Monmouth: Medrawd ( Mordred ) rebels against Arthur while the latter is campaigning on the Continent and usurps the throne, instigating the battle of Camlann.
Geoffrey identifies Gildas ' " royal youths " with the two sons of Mordred, who, along with their Saxon allies, continue their father's insurrection after his death.
Their first appearance is in Geoffrey of Monmouth's fanciful Historia Regum Britanniae, the earliest work to describe Mordred as a usurper.
Early in the Historia Geoffrey states that Mordred has married Arthur's wife Guanhumara, but does not indicate whether Mordred's sons were the product of this union.
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The combat of Arthur and Mordred, illustrated by N. C. Wyeth for The Boy's King Arthur, 1922
Mordred and by
In the Alliterative Morte Arthure, a Middle English poem, there is mention of Clarent, a sword of peace meant for knighting and ceremonies as opposed to battle, which is stolen and then used to kill Arthur by Mordred.
: And ever pushed Sir Mordred, league by league,
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.
She was said to have been abducted by King Mordred.
Later, when his brothers Agravain and Mordred plot to destroy Lancelot and Guinevere by exposing their love affair, Gawain tries to stop them.
The account of the burial by the chronicle of Margam Abbey says three bodies were found, the other being of Mordred.
" Sir Mordred " ( 1902 ) by Henry Justice Ford | H. J. Ford
Mordred was associated with Camlann even at that early date, but as Leslie Alcock points out, this brief entry gives no information as to whether he killed or was killed by Arthur, or even if he was fighting against him ; the reader assumes this in the light of later tradition.
) This sentiment was elaborated upon by Walter Bower and by Hector Boece, who in his Historia Gentis Scotorum goes so far as to say Arthur and Gawain were traitors and villains who stole the throne from Mordred.
In the Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica by James A. Owen, Mordred is the main villain.
Mordred was banished by his brother until he was allowed to come back to fight to become High King, taking on the name Mordred.
One marries King Lot and by him becomes the mother of Gawain, Mordred, Gaheriet and Guerrehet.
This causes a war between Lancelot and Arthur, who is eventually killed by Sir Mordred.
This first book also tells " The Tale of Balyn and Balan ", which ends in accidental fratricide, and the begetting of Mordred, Arthur ’ s incestuous son by his half-sister, Morgause ( though Arthur did not know her as his half-sister ).
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