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Thomas Malory writes: " thenne he drewe his swerd Excalibur, but it was so breyght in his enemyes eyen that it gaf light lyke thirty torchys.
Sir Thomas Malory ( c. 1405 – 14 March 1471 ) was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d ' Arthur.
The antiquary John Leland ( 1506 – 1552 ) as well as John Bale believed him to be Welsh, but most modern scholars, beginning with G. L. Kittredge in 1894, assume that he was Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire, who was a knight, land-owner and Member of Parliament .< ref > Riddy, Felicity </ Ref >.
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.
The earliest conclusion was made by John Bale, a 16th century antiquarian, who declared that Malory was Welsh, hailing from Maloria on the River Dee.
A second candidate was presented by A. T. Martin, another antiquarian, who proposed in an article written in 1897, that the author was Thomas Malory of Papworth St. Agnes in Huntingdonshire.
The brief biography of Malory goes thus: Born on 6 December 1425 at Morton Court, Shropshire, he was the eldest son of Sir William Malory, representative of Parliament to Cambridgeshire.
The same year, Malory was elected to Parliament, serving at Westminster as knight of the shire for Warwickshire for the rest of 1443, and being appointed to a Royal Commission charged with the distribution of monies to impoverished towns in Warwickshire.
Eight weeks later, Malory alone was charged with attacking the same woman, in Coventry.
The judgement went against Malory and he was in London's Marshalsea prison by 1452, where he remained for a year.
Next, when Malory was to answer for his crimes, he could not be found.
Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel died on 14 March 1470, and was buried with adequate splendor in Christ Church Greyfriars, near Newgate Prison.
This claim was put forth in The Ill-Framed Knight: A Skeptical Inquiry Into the Identity of Sir Thomas Malory, written by the aforementioned William Matthews, a British professor who taught at UCLA ( and is most famous for his transcription of the Diary of Samuel Pepys ).
* Sir Thomas Malory ( – March 14, 1471 ) was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d ' 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.
* Carlisle: In Malory, Guinevere's affair with Lancelot was exposed at Carlisle and there she was sentenced to death.

Malory and Sir
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.
This is Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire.
This cameo is included in the Broadway musical Camelot, and in the later film, where his name is given as " Sir Tom of Warwick ", thus supporting the claim of Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel.
* Vinaver, Eugène, " Sir Thomas Malory " in Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, Loomis, Roger S.
* Field, P. J. C., The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993.
Sir Thomas Malory.
“ The Identity of Sir Thomas Malory, Knight-Prisoner .” The Review of English Studies ; 24. 95 ( 1973 ): 257-265.
* 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
The literary convention of courtly love can be found in most of the major authors of the Middle Ages such as Geoffery Chaucer, John Gower, Dante, Marie de France, Chretien de Troyes, Gottfried von Strassburg and Sir Thomas Malory.
* Sir Thomas Malory – highwayman, possible author of Le Morte d ' Arthur, a saga about King Arthur
His poem provided inspiration for numerous later writers, including Sir Thomas Malory and Jorge Luis Borges, and had an impact on medieval history writing in England.
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 ".

Malory and John
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.
* Malory, Thomas, Cowen, Janet & Lawlor, John.
* Malory, Thomas & Matthews, John.
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.
*** Steinbeck, John, and Thomas Malory.

Malory and .
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.
Malory associated other Arthurian locations with modern places, for instance locating Astolat at Guildford.
It is from this fanciful etymological musing that Thomas Malory got the notion that Excalibur meant " cut steel " ("' the name of it ,' said the lady, ' is Excalibur, that is as moche to say, as Cut stele.
After two failed attempts ( as he felt such a great sword should not be thrown away ), he finally complies with the wounded king's request and a hand emerges from the lake to catch it, a tale which becomes attached to Bedivere instead in Malory and the English tradition.
Malory records both versions of the legend in his Le Morte d ' Arthur, and confusingly calls both swords Excalibur.
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.
Malory based his book — originally titled The Whole Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table — on the various previous romance versions, in particular the Vulgate Cycle, and appears to have aimed at creating a comprehensive and authoritative collection of Arthurian stories.
This knight prisoner has led many to assume various identities for Malory, or Malleorre as it seems he spelled it.
This would possibly relate Malory to Edward Rhys Maelor, a fifteenth-century Welsh poet.

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