Segwarides is a Knight of the Round Table in the Arthurian legend. 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 the Prose Tristan and Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, Segwarides is a liegeman of King Mark who is cuckholded by Tristan. The Prose Tristan is an adaptation of the Tristan and Iseult story into a long Prose romance, and the first to tie the subject entirely into 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 Mark of Cornwall ( Latin Marcus, Cornish Margh, Welsh March, Breton Marc'h) was a king of Kernow Sir Tristan ( Latin / Brythonic: Drustanus; Welsh: Drystan; also known as Tristran, Tristram, etc Malory also lists an individual of this name as a son of the Saracen king Esclabor; his brothers are Palamedes and Safir. Saracen was a term used by Europeans in the Middle Ages for Fatimids at first then later for all who professed the religion of Islam. Esclabor is a lord of Babylon and father of Palamedes, Safir, and Segwarides in Arthurian Legend. Palamedes, (also called Palamede Palomides or some other variant was a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend. Sir Safir is a Knight of the Round Table and the youngest son of the Saracen king Esclabor in the Arthurian legend. It seems there were originally two characters of this name, but the stories in which they appear fail to differentiate between them.
In Malory, Tristan has a brief affair with Segwarides' wife, and wounds the knight after being found out. Tristan encounters Segwarides later on the Isle of Servage. Segwardies forgives the more famous knight saying he "will never hate a noble knight for a light lady", and the two team up to avoid the dangers of the isle. Soon afterwards Tristan makes Segwarides Lord of Servage.
Sir Segwarides is killed trying to repel Sir Launcelot's rescue of Guinevere from the stake. 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
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