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Gaheris is a figure of Arthurian legend, a knight of the Round Table, and a son of Morgause and King Lot of Orkney and Lothian. Morgause, known in earlier works as Anna, is the sister or half-sister of King Arthur in the Arthurian legend. Lot or Loth is king of Lothian, Orkney, and sometimes Norway in the Arthurian legend. Orkney (also known as the Orkney Islands or incorrectly the Orkneys) is an Archipelago in northern Scotland, situated 10 miles (16 km north His brothers are Gawain, Agravaine, Gareth and Mordred, a half-brother. Gawain (ˈgɔːwɪn or /gəˈweɪn/ also called Gwalchmei Gawan Gauvain Walewein etc Sir Agravain or Sir Agravaine is a nephew of King Arthur and a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend. Sir Gareth was a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian Legend. Mordred or Modred ( Welsh: Medraut, Medrod, etc is a character in the Arthurian legend, known as a notorious traitor who fought His mother is a daughter of Gorlois and Igraine, and a sister of Elaine and Morgan le Fay. Gorlois ( Old Welsh: Gwrlais) was a Duke of Cornwall and Igraine 's first husband before her marriage to Uther Pendragon, In Arthurian legend, Igraine is the mother of King Arthur. (She is also known in Latin as Igerna, in Welsh as Eigyr, in French as Igerne Elaine is a name shared by several different female characters in Arthurian legend. Morgan le Fay, alternatively known as Morgane, Morgain, Morgana and other variants is a powerful sorceress and Antagonist of She is also an older maternal half-sister of King Arthur. King Arthur is a legendary British leader who according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders

In Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, Gaheris is squire to his elder brother Gawain before being knighted himself, and helped moderate Gawain's fiery temper. Sir Thomas Malory (c 1405 – 14 March 1471 was an English writer the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur. Le Morte d'Arthur (spelled Le Morte Darthur in the first printing and also in some modern editions Middle French for la mort d'Arthur He participates in the murders of King Pellinore, his father's slayer, and Sir Lamorak, Pellinore's son and the lover of Gaheris' mother. King Pellinore is the king of Listenoise or of "the Isles" (possibly Anglesey, or perhaps the medieval kingdom of the same name) according to Lamorak is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend. He was the son of King Pellinore and the brother of Tor, Aglovale, More notorious is his murder of his own mother, Morgause, after catching her in flagrante delicto with the youthful and handsome Lamorak. In flagrante delicto ( Latin: "in the blazing offence " or sometimes simply in flagrante ( Latin: "while blazing " Gaheris beheads his mother but Lamorak escapes, to be hunted down by all the brothers except Gareth, and Mordred stabs him in the back. Since in Malory Lamorak is greater than any knight except Lancelot and Tristram, this act of revenge is deemed cowardly and a blot on the Orkney brothers' honour. In the Arthurian legend, Sir Lancelot ( Lancelot du Lac, also Launcelot) is one of the Knights of the Round Table. Sir Tristan ( Latin / Brythonic: Drustanus; Welsh: Drystan; also known as Tristran, Tristram, etc When Arthur and the brothers discover Gaheris is Morgause' slayer, he is ejected from court.

Gaheris is killed accidentally by Lancelot during the rescue of Guinevere. Guinevere was the legendary Queen consort of King Arthur. She was most famous for her love affair with Arthur's chief knight Sir Lancelot, which first Gaheris will have nothing to do with Agravain and Mordred's plot to entrap Lancelot and Guinevere, and when Arthur asks the brothers to help guard the Queen's execution, Gaheris and Gareth reluctantly agree, though Gawain refuses. They decline to wear armor, and Lancelot, unable to distinguish friend from foe in his blind wrath, cuts down the unarmored princes. Gawain's fury at this outrage is terrible and the resulting feud largely destroys the Round Table.

Gaheris is often little more than a supporting character to his brothers Gawain and Gareth, with the murder of Morgause an odd exception, leading modern authors such as T. H. White to give the act to Agravaine instead. Gawain (ˈgɔːwɪn or /gəˈweɪn/ also called Gwalchmei Gawan Gauvain Walewein etc Sir Gareth was a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian Legend. Terence Hanbury White ( 29 May 1906 &ndash 17 January 1964) was an English Author best known for his sequence of Arthurian Sir Agravain or Sir Agravaine is a nephew of King Arthur and a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend. He even marries the sister of Gareth's wife Lyonors, the haughty damsel Lynette. In the Arthurian Legend, Lynette (also referred to as Linnet Linette Linet or Lynet is a woman who travels to King Arthur 's court to seek help for her beautiful It is likely Gaheris and Gareth were the same character in origin, as their names in French sources, Guerrehes (Gaheris, usually) and Gaheriet (Gareth, usually), are easy to confuse and adventures ascribed to the brothers are often interchangeable. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people Furthermore, only one brother is ever named for Gwalchmai ap Gwyar, the character from Welsh mythology traditionally identified with Gawain. Welsh mythology, the remnants of the Mythology of the pre Christian Britons, has come down to us in much altered form in medieval Welsh manuscripts This character, Gwalchafed, is a likely source for Gaheris and Gareth if Gawain did indeed derive from Gwalchmai.

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