In the Arthurian legend, Sir Lancelot (Lancelot du Lac, also Launcelot) is one of the Knights of the Round Table. Knights of the Round Table were those men awarded the highest order of Chivalry at the Court of King Arthur in the literary cycle the Matter of Britain In most of the French prose romances and works, he is characterized as the greatest and most trusted of Arthur's knights (at one point is called 'the most talked about knight now living), and plays a part in many of Arthur's victories – but Arthur's eventual downfall is also brought about in part by Lancelot, whose affair with Arthur's wife Guinevere destroys the unity of Arthur's court. 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

Lancelot is a very popular character. To the great majority of English readers the name of no knight of King Arthur's court is so familiar as is that of Sir Lancelot. The mention of Arthur and the Round Table at once brings him to mind to moderns as the most valiant member of that brotherhood and the secret lover of the Queen. Lancelot, however, is not an original member of the cycle, and the development of his story is still a source of considerable disagreement between scholars.

According to legend Lancelot's father is King Ban of Benioic and his mother's name is Elaine; his illegitimate half-brother is Hector de Maris, King Bors is his uncle, and Sir Bors and Sir Lionel are his cousins. In Arthurian legend, Ban is the King of Benwick or Benoic. He is the father of Sir Lancelot and Sir Hector de Maris, the brother of Elaine is a name shared by several different female characters in Arthurian legend. Sir Hector de Maris is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend. Bors (Bohort Julius Tiberius circa 540s-580s is the name of two knights in the Arthurian legend, one the father and one the son Bors (Bohort Julius Tiberius circa 540s-580s is the name of two knights in the Arthurian legend, one the father and one the son Sir Lionel is the younger son of King Bors of Gaunnes (or Gaul) and brother of Bors the Younger in Arthurian legend. With the Fisher King's daughter Elaine, he becomes the father of Galahad (in some sources, Galahad is also Lancelot's own baptismal name). The Fisher King or the Wounded King figures in Arthurian legend as the latest in a line charged with keeping the Holy Grail. Elaine is a name shared by several different female characters in Arthurian legend. Sir Galahad is a knight of King Arthur 's Round Table and one of the three achievers of the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend. His home is the castle Joyous Guard.

Contents 1 Early prose and poetry 2 Further reading 3 Modern interpretations 3.1 In books 3.2 In film 4 External links 5 See also

Early prose and poetry

Briefly summarized, the outline of his career, as given in the French Prose Lancelot and the German Lanzelet by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven is as follows:

Lancelot was the only child of the great King Ban (Pant) of Benoic (Genewis) and his queen Helaine (Clarine). The Lancelot-Grail, also known as the Prose Lancelot, the Vulgate Cycle, or the Pseudo-Map Cycle, is a major source of Arthurian legend Lanzelet is a Medieval romance written by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven sometime after 1194. Ulrich von Zatzikhoven was the author of the Middle High German Arthurian romance Lanzelet. In Arthurian legend, Ban is the King of Benwick or Benoic. He is the father of Sir Lancelot and Sir Hector de Maris, the brother of Elaine is a name shared by several different female characters in Arthurian legend. While yet an infant, his father was driven from his kingdom, either by a revolt of his subjects, caused by his own harshness (Lanzelet), or by the action of his enemy Claudas de la Deserte (Lancelot). King Claudas is a fictional Frankish king and an opponent to King Arthur, Lancelot, and Bors in Arthurian literature. King and queen flee, carrying the child with them, and while the wife is tending her husband, who dies of a broken heart on his flight, the infant is carried off by a friendly water-fay, the Lady of the Lake, who brings the boy up in her mysterious kingdom. The Lady of the Lake is the name of several related characters who play integral parts in the Arthurian legend. In the German poem this is a veritable “Isle of Maidens,” where no man ever enters, and where it is perpetual spring. In the prose Lancelot, on the other hand, the Lake is but a mirage, and the Lady's court does not lack its complement of gallant knights; moreover the boy has the companionship of his cousins, Lionel and Bors (sons of his father's younger brother Bors), who, like himself, have been driven from their kingdom by Claudas. When he reaches the customary age (fifteen or eighteen by different texts and calculations), the young Lancelot, suitably equipped, is sent out into the world. In both versions his name and parentage are unknown to him. In Lanzelet he lacks all knightly accomplishments (not unnatural when we remember he has here been brought up entirely by women) and his inability to handle a steed is emphasized. He rides forth in search of what adventure may bring. In the prose Lancelot he goes with a fitting escort and equipment to Arthur's court, where the Lady of the Lake asks that he be knighted.

The subsequent adventures differ widely, but in both tales he rides about the land accompanied by a woman who later abandons him, and in both he eventually learns his true name and lineage, regaining his rightful heritage peaceably because none dares stand against him. But in the Prose Lancelot the tale is extended by a description of Claudas' war against the Knights of the Round Table, in which neither side gains the upper hand until word comes that Arthur and Lancelot themselves are coming with reinforcements. Claudas immediately flees alone into exile.

In Lanzelet the hero then reigns in peace over a land inherited though his wife Iblis, while King Ban's kingdom is ruled by an uncle. Both Lancelot and his wife live to see their children's children, and they die on the same day. The whole of Lanzelet has much more the character of folklore than that of a knightly romance. History The concept of folklore developed as part of the 19th century ideology of Romantic nationalism, leading to the reshaping of oral traditions to serve modern ideological

In the prose version, Lancelot, from his first appearance at court, conceives a passion for the queen, who is very considerably his senior, his birth taking place some time after her marriage to Arthur. This infatuation colours his whole later career. He frees her from imprisonment in the castle of Meleagant, who kidnapped her (a similar adventure is related in Lanzelet, where he fights a duel against a would-be abductor Valerin, but when Valerin later succeeds in taking the queen, Lanzelet is not the rescuer). Maleagant (also spelled Malagent, Malagant or Meleagant) is a villain from Arthurian legend. Although he recovers his kingdom from Claudas, he prefers to remain a simple knight of Arthur's court along with his cousins and illegitimate half-brother Hector de Maris who also refused to retire from knighthood to take on lordship. Sir Hector de Maris is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend. Tricked into a liaison with the Fisher King's daughter (called Elaine in a few later texts), he becomes the father of Galahad, the Grail winner, and, as a result of the queen's jealous anger at his relations with the lady, goes mad (for the third time), and remains an exile from the court for some years. The Fisher King or the Wounded King figures in Arthurian legend as the latest in a line charged with keeping the Holy Grail. Elaine is a name shared by several different female characters in Arthurian legend. Sir Galahad is a knight of King Arthur 's Round Table and one of the three achievers of the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend. According to Christian mythology, the Holy Grail was the dish plate or cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper, said to possess miraculous powers He takes part in the Grail quest, but is granted only a fleeting glimpse of the sacred Vessel; this induces unconsciousness that lasts for as many days as he has spent years in sin. Finally, his relations with Guinevere are revealed to Arthur by King Lot's sons except for Gawain, Guerrehet and Gaheriet (in Malory Gawain, Gaheris, and Gareth), who take no part in the disclosure. Lot or Loth is king of Lothian, Orkney, and sometimes Norway in the Arthurian legend. Gawain (ˈgɔːwɪn or /gəˈweɪn/ also called Gwalchmei Gawan Gauvain Walewein etc 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 Sir Gareth was a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian Legend. Surprised together with the queen, Lancelot escapes, and the queen is condemned to be burnt at the stake. As her death sentence is about to be carried out, Lancelot and his kinsmen come to the queen's rescue, but in the fight that ensues many of Arthur's knights, including three of Gawain's brothers, are slain. Now Lancelot's enemy, Gawain urges Arthur to wage war against him, and there follows a desperate struggle between Arthur and the race of Ban. This is interrupted by an invasion of Gaul by the Romans. But no sooner has Arthur defeated the Romans than tidings come of Mordred's treachery. Mordred or Modred ( Welsh: Medraut, Medrod, etc is a character in the Arthurian legend, known as a notorious traitor who fought Lancelot, taking no part in the last fatal conflict, outlives both the king and queen, as well as the downfall of the Round Table. Finally, retiring to a hermitage, he ends his days in the odour of sanctity.

The process whereby the independent hero of the Lanzelette - who has only minimal contact with Arthur, and who is the faithful husband of Iblis - was converted into the principal ornament of Arthur's court and the devoted lover of the queen, is by no means easy to follow, nor do other works of the cycle explain the transformation. In the pseudo-chronicles, the Historia of Geoffrey and the translations by Robert Wace and Layamon, Lancelot does not appear at all; the queen's lover, whose guilty passion is fully returned, is Mordred. WACE (730 AM) is a Radio station broadcasting a Christian radio format

Chrétien de Troyes' treatment of Lancelot is contradictory; in Erec and Enide, his earliest extant poem, Lancelot's name appears as third on the list of the knights of Arthur's court. Chrétien de Troyes was a French poet and Trouvère who flourished in the late 12th century. Erec and Enide ( Érec et Énide) is Chrétien de Troyes ' first romance, completed around 1170. (Of course Gawain is first and Erec, the hero of the tale, is second, so third position indicates Lancelot's general high status. Gawain (ˈgɔːwɪn or /gəˈweɪn/ also called Gwalchmei Gawan Gauvain Walewein etc ) In Chrétien's Cligès Lancelot actually makes an appearance as one of the formidable knights the story's hero must overcome. Cligès is a poem by the Medieval French poet Chrétien de Troyes, dating from around 1176. In Le Chevalier de la Charrette, however, which followed Cligès, Lancelot is the hero of the poem and therefore of course the best knight of the court, and also the queen's lover; this is precisely the position he occupies in the prose romance, where the section dealing with this adventure is, as Gaston Paris clearly proved, an almost literal adaptation of Chrétien's poem. Lancelot the Knight of the Cart (Lancelot le Chevalier de la Charrette is an Old French poem by Chrétien de Troyes. Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris ( August 9, 1839 – March 5, 1903) known as Gaston Paris was a French writer and scholar The subject of the poem is the rescue of the queen from her abductor Meleagant; and what makes the matter more perplexing is that Chrétien handles the situation as if his audience were already familiar with it: it is Lancelot, not Arthur, to whom the role of rescuer naturally belongs. Maleagant (also spelled Malagent, Malagant or Meleagant) is a villain from Arthurian legend. In Perceval, le Conte du Graal, Chrétien's last work, Lancelot does not appear at all, although much of the action takes place at Arthur's court. Perceval the Story of the Grail (Perceval le Conte du Graal is the unfinished fifth romance of Chrétien de Troyes.

In the Continuations added at various times to Chrétien's unfinished work, the role assigned to Lancelot is also modest. Among the fifteen knights selected by Arthur to accompany him to Chastel Orguellous he only ranks ninth. In a Tristan episode inserted by Gerbert de Montreuil in his continuation, Lancelot is one of the knights publicly overthrown and shamed by Tristan. Sir Tristan ( Latin / Brythonic: Drustanus; Welsh: Drystan; also known as Tristran, Tristram, etc Gerbert de Montreuil was a 13th-century French poet from the north of France

Nowhere outside of Le Chevalier de la Charette is Lancelot treated with anything approaching the importance assigned to him in the prose romances. Welsh tradition does not know him (Roger Sherman Loomis posited that Lancelot derived from the character Lloch Llawwynnyawc or Lugh Llenlleawg found in Culhwch and Olwen and referenced in the poems Pa Gur and Preiddeu Annwfn, and claimed he could be traced back to Lleu Llaw Gyffes or even the Celtic god Lugh or Lugus, but this view is no longer widely accepted). Roger Sherman Loomis ( October 31, 1887 – October 1966 was an American scholar and one of the foremost authorities on medieval and Arthurian Culhwch and Olwen ( Culhwch ac Olwen) is a Welsh tale about a hero connected with Arthur and his warriors that survives in only two manuscripts Preiddeu Annwfn ( English: The Spoils of Annwfn) is a short enigmatic poem found in the Welsh Book of Taliesin. Lleu Llaw Gyffes (/ɬeɨ ɬau gəfes/ sometimes misspelled Llew Llaw Gyffes is a figure of Welsh mythology. Celtic mythology is the Mythology of Celtic polytheism, apparently the Religion of the Iron Age Celts Like other Iron Age Lugh (ˈluː modern Irish Lú, earlier Lug) is an Irish Deity represented in mythological texts as a hero and High King of the distant Lugus was a deity apparently worshipped widely in antiquity in the Celtic -speaking world Nor do early Italian records - which have preserved the names of Arthur and Gawain - make any reference to Lancelot. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest What appears to be the most probable solution is that Lancelot was the hero of an independent and widely diffused folk-tale, which, owing to certain special circumstances, was brought into contact with, and incorporated into, the Arthurian tradition. This has been proved of the adventures recounted in the Lanzelet: the theft of an infant by a water-fairy, the appearance of the hero at a tournament on three consecutive days in three different disguises, and the rescue of a queen or princess from an Other-World prison are all features of a well-known and widespread folk-tale, variants of which are found in almost every land, and numerous examples of which have been collected by Emmanuel Cosquin in his Contes Lorrains, and by J. Emmanuel Cosquin (1841 - 1919 was a French folklorist He wrote the "Popular Tales of Lorraine" in the introduction to which he argues for the theory that the development F. Campbell in his Tales of the West Highlands.

The story of the love between Lancelot and Guinevere as related by Chrétien has nothing spontaneous and genuine about it; in no way can it be compared with the story of Tristan and Iseult. 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 Sir Tristan ( Latin / Brythonic: Drustanus; Welsh: Drystan; also known as Tristran, Tristram, etc Iseult (alternatively Isolde, Yseult, Isode, Isoude, Isotta) is the name of several characters in the Arthurian story of It is the exposition of a relationship governed by artificial and arbitrary rules, to which the principal actors in the drama must perforce conform. Chrétien states that he composed the poem (which he left to be completed by Godefroi de Leigni) at the request of the countess Marie de Champagne, who provided him with matière et san. Godefroi de Leigni was a Clerk and an associate of Chrétien de Troyes during the 12th century, presumably at the court of Marie de Champagne Marie of France, or Marie Capet, Countess of Champagne (1145 &ndash March 11, 1198) was the elder daughter of Louis VII of France Marie was the daughter of Louis VII of France and of Eleanor of Aquitaine, subsequently wife of Henry II of Anjou and England. Louis VII, called the Younger or the Young (Louis le Jeune 1120 – 18 September 1180) was King of France, the son and successor For other Eleanors of England see Eleanor of England (disambiguation Eleanor Duchess of Aquitaine (1122&ndash1 April 1204 Anjou is a former County (c 880) Duchy ( 1360) and province centred on the city of Angers in the lower Both mother and daughter were active agents in fostering the view of the social relations of the sexes which found its most famous expression in the "Courts of Love", and which was responsible for the dictum that love between husband and wife was impossible. Courtly love was a Medieval European conception of ennobling love which found its genesis in the ducal and princely courts of Aquitaine, Provence The logical conclusion appears to be that the Charrette poem is a Tendenz-Schrift, composed under particular conditions in response to a special demand. The story of Tristan and Iseult, immensely popular as it was, was too genuine to satisfy the taste of the court for which Chrétien was writing. Moreover, the Arthurian story was the popular story of the day, and Tristan did not belong to the magic circle, although he was ultimately brought within its bounds. The Arthurian cycle must have its own love-tale; Guinevere, the leading lady of that cycle, had to have a lover like the courtly ladies of the day, so one had to be found for her. Lancelot, already popular hero of a tale in which an adventure parallel to that of the Charrette figured prominently, was pressed into service. Mordred, Guinevere's earlier lover, was too unsympathetic a character; moreover, he was required for the final role of traitor. Mordred or Modred ( Welsh: Medraut, Medrod, etc is a character in the Arthurian legend, known as a notorious traitor who fought

But to whom is the story to be assigned? Here we must distinguish between Lancelot proper and the Lancelot/Guinevere versions; so far as the latter are concerned, we cannot trace it any further than Chrétien's version. Nowhere prior to the composition of the Chevalier de la Charrette is there any evidence of the existence of such a story. Yet Chrétien does not claim to have invented the situation. Did it spring from the fertile brain of some court lady - Marie or another? The authorship of the Lancelot proper, on the other hand, is frequently ascribed to Walter Map, the chancellor of Henry II, as are the majority of the Arthurian prose romances. The Lancelot-Grail, also known as the Prose Lancelot, the Vulgate Cycle, or the Pseudo-Map Cycle, is a major source of Arthurian legend Walter Map (born 1140 died c 1208&ndash1210 was a medieval writer using Latin However, Walter had died before the prose Lancelot could have been composed. Some, however, accept Map as the possible author of a Lancelot romance that formed the basis for later developments, and there is a growing tendency to identify this hypothetical original Lancelot with the source of the German Lanzelet. The author, Ulrich von Zatzikhoven, tells us that he translated his poem from a French (welsches) book in the possession of Hugo de Morville, one of the English hostages who, in 1194, replaced Richard Coeur de Lion in the prison of Leopold V of Austria. Ulrich von Zatzikhoven was the author of the Middle High German Arthurian romance Lanzelet. Hugh de Morville (died c 1202 was an Anglo-Norman knight who served King Henry II of England in the late 12th century Richard I (8 September 1157 &ndash 6 April 1199 was King of England from 6 July 1189 until his death Leopold V (1157 &ndash December 31, 1194) the Virtuous, was a Babenberg Duke of Austria from 1177 to 1194 and Styria

To the student of the earliest medieval Arthurian romances, Lancelot is an infinitely less interesting hero than Gawain, Perceval or Tristan, each of whom possesses a well-marked personality, and is the centre of what we may call individual adventures. Percival or Perceval is one of King Arthur 's legendary Knights of the Round Table. Except for his being stolen and brought up by a water-fairy (the whole story probably started from a Lai relating this adventure ), there is nothing much in the material common to the French and German tales to distinguish Lancelot from any other romantic hero of the period.

But in the Perlesvaus, possibly the earliest French prose Arthurian romance, Lancelot's love affair with Guinevere suddenly re-emerges and Lancelot plays a part in this Grail romance almost equal to that of Perceval the hero and Gawain. Perlesvaus, also called Li Hauz Livres du Graal ( The High History of the Holy Grail) is an Old French Arthurian But in this romance, Lancelot - unlike Perceval, Gawain and Arthur - never sees the Grail.

The language of the prose Lancelot itself is good, easy and graceful, but except for the earlier sections involving Lancelot and his friend Galehot, most of Lancelot's own adventures lack originality and interest. Galehaut, Sire des Lointaines Isles (Lord of the Distant Isles appears for the first time in Arthurian literature in the early-thirteenth-century prose Lancelot Situations repeat themselves in a wearisome manner. English readers who know the story only through the medium of Malory's prose and Tennyson's verse have an impression entirely different from that produced by the original literature. Sir Thomas Malory (c 1405 – 14 March 1471 was an English writer the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur. Alfred Tennyson 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892 was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and remains one of the most popular English poets The Lancelot story, in its rise and development, belongs exclusively to the later stage of Arthurian romance; it was a story for the court, not for the folk, and it lacks both the dramatic force and human appeal of the genuine popular tale.

The prose Lancelot was frequently printed; J. C. Brunet chronicles editions of 1488, 1494, 1513, 1520 and 1533; there are two from this last date, one published by Jehan Petit, the other by Philippe Lenoire; the Lenoire edition is far better, being printed from a much fuller manuscript. There is now a critical edition in nine volumes by Alexandre Micha, as well as an edition by Elspeth Kennedy of an alternative Old French version. There is also a translation into English by a team of scholars directed by Norris J. Lacy; the only version available for the general reader of French is the modernized and abridged text published by Paulin Paris in vols. Alexis Paulin Paris ( March 25, 1800 &ndash February 13, 1881) was a French scholar and author iii. to v. of Romans de la Table Ronde. A Dutch verse translation of the 13th century was published by W. J. A. Jonckbloet in 1850, under the title of Roman van Lanceleet. Dutch ( is a West Germanic language spoken by around 24 million people 22 million of which are from the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname Willem Jozef Andreas Jonckbloet ( 6 July[[ 817]] The Hague - 19 October 1885 Wiesbaden) was a Dutch historian best known for work on Medieval This begins with what Paulin Paris terms the Agravain section, the whole previous part with Guinevere's rescue from Meleagant having been lost; but the text is an excellent one, agreeing closely with the Lenoire edition of 1533. The Books devoted by Malory to Lancelot are also drawn from this latter section of the romance; there is no sign that the English translator had any of the earlier part before him. Malory's version of the Charrette adventure differs in many respects from any other extant form, and the source of this special section of his work is still a question of debate among scholars.

Further reading

• Lancelot and the Grail: A Study of the Prose Lancelot, Elspeth Kennedy (Clarendon Press, 1986)
• Lancelot Do Lac, the Non-Cyclic Old French Prose Romance, Two Volumes, Elspeth Kennedy (ed. Elspeth Mary Kennedy MA DPhil FSA (1921 — March 10, 2006) was a British academic and a prominent Medievalist Elspeth Kennedy's academic career ) (OUP, 1980)
• Lancelot of the Lake, Introduction Elspeth Kennedy. Translation and notes Corin Corley (Oxford World's Classics)
• William Cole. "First and Otherwise Notable Editions of Medieval French Texts Printed from 1742 to 1874: A Bibliographical Catalogue of My Collection". Sitges: Cole & Contreras, 2005.

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Modern interpretations

In the modern world, interpretations of Lancelot have varied with him most stereotypically being portrayed in novels and film as a near-perfect warrior, skilled, handsome, and charismatic. In most films, Guinevere and Arthur are the same age as Lancelot.

In books

• In Marion Zimmer Bradley's highly revisionist The Mists of Avalon, Lancelot is bisexual. Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley ( June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of Fantasy novels such For the critical reexamination of historical facts see Historical revisionism. The Mists of Avalon is a 1982 novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley, in which she relates the Arthurian legends from the perspective of the female characters Bisexuality refers to sexual behavior with or attraction to people of both sexes or to a bisexual orientation
• In Bernard Cornwell's The Warlord Chronicles, Lancelot is depicted as Galahad's cowardly older brother, who nevertheless has an impossibly grand reputation as a heroic fighter thanks to his mother commissioning a great many poems in his honour. Bernard Cornwell OBE (born February 23, 1944) is a prolific and popular English Historical novelist He is best known for his The Warlord Chronicles is a Trilogy of books about Arthurian Britain written by Bernard Cornwell (perhaps best known for his Richard Sir Galahad is a knight of King Arthur 's Round Table and one of the three achievers of the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend.
• Lancelot's modern incarnation in Meg Cabot's young adult novel Avalon High is Lance, an attractive high school football player. Meg Cabot (born Meggin Patricia Cabot on February 1, 1967 in Bloomington Indiana, United States) is a American chick-lit Avalon High is a Young adult novel by Meg Cabot, published in 2005.
• In the light novel Fate/Zero, Lancelot was summoned the servant Berserker to fight in the Holy Grail War. is a prequel to TYPE-MOON 's visual novel Fate/stay night. It is a light novel by Gen Urobuchi, illustrated by Takashi Takeuchi. Berserker is a Fictional character from the Japanese Novel Fate/Zero by TYPE-MOON and fellow developer Nitroplus Upon his defeat by Saber, he said that he had wanted his king to strike him down to atone for his sins like a faithful knight
• In the young adults book Shalott, by Felicity Pulman, 5 young Australians are sent back in time to king Arthur's court to try and change history and tennyson's poem on the Lady of Shalott(Astolat)

In film

• Lancelot was the hero of the 1950s British television series The Adventures of Sir Lancelot, where he was played by William Russell. Saber is a Fictional character from the Japanese Visual novel and Anime series Fate/stay night by TYPE-MOON Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic The Adventures of Sir Lancelot was a British Television series of the 1950s produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment William Russell (born William Russell Enoch on November 19, 1924 in Sunderland, England) is a British Actor, This was the first British television series ever to be made in colour.
• In the 1953 film Knights of the Round Table, Lancelot (Robert Taylor) and Guinevere's (Ava Gardner) affair is limited to a kiss, and he defeats Mordred (Stanley Baker) after Arthur (Mel Ferrer) dies. Knights of the Round Table is a 1954 historical film made by MGM. Robert Taylor (August 5 1911 &ndash June 8 1969 was an American Actor. Ava Lavinia Gardner ( December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an Academy Award -nominated American actress Sir William Stanley Baker ( February 28 1928 - June 28 1976) known as Stanley Baker, was a Welsh Actor and Mel Ferrer ( August 25 1917 – June 2 2008) was an American Actor, Film director and Film producer
• Lancelot du Lac, a French film by Robert Bresson. Lancelot du Lac is 1974 Film that was written and directed by Robert Bresson. Robert Bresson (ʁɔbɛʁ bʁɛˈsɔ̃ in French ( September 25, 1901 &ndash December 18, 1999) was a French Film director
• In the 1975 comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, "Sir Lancelot the Brave" (played by John Cleese) is a marvellously violent knight known to attack castle walls, farm animals, wedding guests, and flowers. Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 film written and performed by the comedy group Monty Python ( Graham Chapman, John Cleese John Marwood Cleese (ˈkliːz born 27 October, 1939) is a British Actor, Comedian, Writer, Film producer At the end of the film, he is the first one to cross the Bridge of Death, but is ultimately arrested by police looking for the murderer of the historian shortly afterwards. In the 2005 Broadway version of this film, Spamalot, Lancelot's quest leads him to discover that he is gay and ends up "marrying" the effeminate Prince Herbert (his homosexuality was alluded to during the end of Galahad's quest in the original movie where Galahad accused Lancelot of being gay, but the latter claimed that he's not). Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located Monty Python's Spamalot is a musical comedy "lovingly ripped off from" the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. In the English language, gay is an Adjective that in modern usage refers to Homosexuality.
• In John Boorman's 1981 film, Excalibur, Lancelot (Nicholas Clay) is portrayed much in the same manner as in Malory, but carries out actions usually assigned to other knights. John Boorman (born January 18, 1933) is an English filmmaker currently based in Ireland best known for his feature films such as Point Excalibur is a 1981 Fantasy film which retells the legend of King Arthur. Nicholas Anthony Phillip Clay ( September 18, 1946 - May 25, 2000) was a British Actor. Like Tristan he is sent to escort the king's betrothed and falls in love with her on the way. Sir Tristan ( Latin / Brythonic: Drustanus; Welsh: Drystan; also known as Tristran, Tristram, etc When Arthur (Nigel Terry) first meets Lancelot the two fight and Excalibur is broken (but later fixed by the Lady of the Lake). Nigel Terry (born August 15, 1945) is a British stage and Film actor probably best known by movie audiences for his portrayal of King Excalibur is the legendary Sword of King Arthur sometimes attributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful Sovereignty of Great The Lady of the Lake is the name of several related characters who play integral parts in the Arthurian legend. This reflects Arthur's fight with King Pellinore in Malory, where he breaks the Sword from the Stone and the Lady replaces it with Excalibur. King Pellinore is the king of Listenoise or of "the Isles" (possibly Anglesey, or perhaps the medieval kingdom of the same name) according to Later, Arthur discovers the lovers in a forest, but spares them, leaving Excalibur standing between their bodies (again, from the legends of Tristan and Isolde, and similar to Pelleas' response to finding his love in the arms of Gawaine). Lancelot is driven mad by remorse, and lives as a wild man (Much as he does in Malory, and like Tristan, who temporarily suffered from amnesia - and a similar remorse-fuelled period of madness occurs to Lancelot in T. H. White's Once and Future King series) during the quest for the Grail. According to Christian mythology, the Holy Grail was the dish plate or cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper, said to possess miraculous powers Later, he re-emerges during the final battle against Mordred, where he dies, reconciled with Arthur. Mordred or Modred ( Welsh: Medraut, Medrod, etc is a character in the Arthurian legend, known as a notorious traitor who fought
• The animated series King Arthur and the Knights of Justice features a 20th century New York football team called the Knights, who are led by quarterback Arthur King. An animated cartoon is a short hand-drawn (or made with computers to look similar to something hand-drawn Film for the cinema, Television or computer King Arthur & the Knights of Justice was a Sunday morning syndicated cartoon series which lasted for 2 seasons (totaling 26 episodes and was produced by Golden Films C&D Entertainment New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive Team sport known for mixing strategy with Quarterback ( QB) is a position in American and Canadian football. Arthur and the New York Knights are transported to Camelot by Merlin to temporarily replace the real Arthur and his knights, who have been magically imprisoned by Morgana le Faye's magic. Lancelot's counterpart is unsurprisingly named Lance, and he wields a lance. The term lance has become a catchall for a variety of different Pole weapons based on the Spear.
• In the 1995 film First Knight, Lancelot (Richard Gere), comes to the court of King Arthur (Sean Connery) as a fearless fighter without master. First Knight is a 1995 Film based on Arthurian legend. The principal characters are Lancelot (played by Richard Gere Richard Tiffany Gere (born August 31, 1949) is a Golden Globe - and Screen Actors Guild Award -winning American Actor. Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born August 25 1930) is an Academy Award - Golden Globe - and BAFTA Award -winning Scottish Master is an English title In English and Welsh society Master was used in England for men of some rank especially "free masters" He rescues Guinevere (Julia Ormond) from Sir Malagant's brigands early in the film and falls in love with her at their first meeting. Julia Karin Ormond (born 4 January 1965) is a British Actress who like her fellow thespian Britons Helena Bonham Carter and Maleagant (also spelled Malagent, Malagant or Meleagant) is a villain from Arthurian legend. Following the death of Arthur, Lancelot and Guinevere marry and rule the kingdom justly. Notably, Arthur is noticeably older than both Lancelot and Guinevere.

• In the 2004 film King Arthur, Lancelot (Ioan Gruffudd) is portrayed as an atheist, in contrast to Arthur (Clive Owen), who is a devout Catholic, though a follower of the Pelagian heresy. King Arthur is a 2004 Film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Franzoni. Ioan Gruffudd (ˈjoʊæn ˈgrɪfɪð;; born 6 October 1973) is a Welsh Actor. King Arthur is a 2004 Film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Franzoni. Ioan Gruffudd (ˈjoʊæn ˈgrɪfɪð;; born 6 October 1973) is a Welsh Actor. Atheism Clive Owen (born October 3, 1964) is an Academy Award -nominated and Golden Globe - and BAFTA -award winning English Catholic is an Adjective derived from the Greek adjective '' / 'katholikos' meaning "whole" or "complete". Pelagianism is a theological theory named after Pelagius (ad 354 – ad Lancelot is also a Sarmatian, whose origins are of the Black Sea area of Eastern Europe. The Sarmatians, Sarmatae or Sauromatae ( Old Iranian Sarumatah 'archer' Σαρμάτες He is forced into service in Britain by tradition of the Roman Empire. Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between AD 43 and 410 The Roman Empire was the post-Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial In this version, his affair with Guinevere is almost non-existent - there is clearly chemistry, but they never act on their attraction.
• In the 2007 film Shrek the Third, Lancelot is seen as the high school's head jock who bullies Artie and makes him the dummy in jousting training (voiced by John Krasinski). Shrek the Third, released 6 years after the first ''Shrek'' and 3 years after the second ''Shrek'', is a 2007 Animated film, and the John Burke Krasinski (born October 20, 1979) is an American Actor, Film director and Writer.

Lancelot and Guinevere (alternately known as Sword of Lancelot)is a 1963 film scripted, directed by and starring Cornel Wilde. Lancelot and Guinevere (known as Sword of Lancelot in the US is a British 1963 Film starring Cornel Wilde Cornelius Louis Wilde ( October 13, 1915 &ndash October 16, 1989) was an American Actor and film director

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