King Arthur Characters Name Other names Earliest appearance Post-Vulgate Cycle, 1230s Agloval, Sir Aglovale de Galis

Works featured in Description Morgan le Fay's lover The Life of Sir Aglovale King Pellinore's de Galis, The Once and eldest son Future King Second son of King Lot and Morgause, joins Mordred's rebellion

Accolon

Aglovale

Agravain

Agravaine

Lancelot-Grail, Le Morte D'Arthur

Amr

Amhar, Amir, Anir

Historia Brittonum, c. AD Geraint and Enid 820 Y Gododdin, c. 7th century Many

Son of King Arthur

King Arthur

Arthur Pendragon

King of the Britons Uther Pendragon's brother, High King of Britain before him

Aurelius Ambrosius

Ambrosius Aurelianus

Gildas' De Excidio et Conquestu Historia Brittonum c. Britanniae c. AD AD 820 540s

Bagdemagus

Lancelot, the Knight of Meleagant's father the Cart, 1170s and ruler of Gorre Lancelot-Grail, early 13th century Sir Balan le Savage Post-Vulgate Cycle, 1230s Lancelot's father

Ban

Balan

Post-Vulgate, Le Morte Brother to Balin D'Arthur Post-Vulgate, Le Morte Brother to Balan, kills the Lady of the D'Arthur Lake and strikes the

Balin

Sir Balin le Savage, Post-Vulgate Knight with Two Swords Cycle, 1230s

Dolorous Stroke Vita Cadoc, Culhwch and Olwen, Stanzas of Pa Gur yv y the Graves, Welsh Porthaur, c. 10th Triads, Historia Regum Britanniae, Le Morte century d'Arthur, numerous others

Bedivere

(Welsh: Bedwyr)(French: Bdoier) Bedevere

Returns Excalibur to The Lady of the Lake, brother to Sir Lucan

Black Knight

King Arthur's grandson through Tom a'Lincoln. Another Black Knight is an antagonist figure Chrtien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail, c. 1181 Lancelot-Grail, early 13th century

Blanchefleur

Percival's wife, niece to Gornemant

Bors the Elder (French: Bohort)

Brother to King Ban, and an ally of Arthur's Son of Bors the Elder, father of Elyan the White

Bors the Younger

Brangaine

Tristan poems of Tristan poems by Broul, Thomas, Eilhart Broul and von Oberge, Gottfried Brangaene, Brangwane, Thomas of von Strassburg, Prose Handmaid to Iseult Brangien Britain, 12th Tristan, Post-Vulgate Cycle, Thomas Malory's century Le Morte d'Arthur Sir Bruin Surnamed the Black First Named in "King Arthur Meets Lady Guinevere" Howard Unknown Family, One of the Original 32 Knights of the

Bruin

Pyle

"Round table" Knight who wears his murdered father's coat, brother of Dinadan and Daniel

Breunor le Noir

Brunor, La Cote Male Taile ("The Badlyshaped Coat")

Brutus of Britain

(Brut, Brute, Welsh: Bryttys)

Historia Brittonum, c. AD 820

First King of Britain, a Trojan Raised Guinevere as his ward, father to Historia Regum Constantine III of Britanniae, The Dream Britain, Described in of Rhonabwy some works as Arthur's cousin Edmund Spenser's The Tom a'Lincoln's Faerie Queene, 1590; lover, mother to the Richard Johnson's Tom Faerie Knight a Lincoln part 1, 1599

Cador

(Latin: Cadorius)

Caelia

Celia, The Faerie Queene

Calogrenant Colgrevance, Cynan

Chrtien de Troyes' Yvain, the Le Morte d'Arthur Knight of the Lion, 1170s

Cousin to Sir Ywain

Caradoc

(Latin: Caractacus) (Welsh: Caradog Freichfras, meaning Caradoc Strong (or Stout) Arm)) (French: Carados Briefbras)

Perceval, the Story of the Grail, the Mabinogion

Rebelled against Arthur when he first became king, but later supported him. Sometimes two characters, Caradoc the Elder (a king) and Caradoc the Younger (a knight)

Catigern

(Welsh: Cattegirn)

Historia Brittonum (9th Son of Vortigern; century), Harleian fought alongside his genealogies, Historia brother Vortimer

Regum Britanniae (c. 1134) Cerdic of Wessex Anglo Saxon Chronicle, 9th century Perlesvaus, LancelotGrail, Post-Vulgate Cycle, Le Morte d'Arthur

against the Saxons

First King of Wessex, an ancestor of Arthur's A Frankish King antagonistic to Arthur, has two sons, Dorin and Claudin Virtuous son of the Frankish villain Claudas, eventually becomes one of 12 knights to achieve the Holy Grail Son of Constantine II of Britain, older brother to Uther Pendragon Arthur's grandfather, father to Uther Pendragon, Constans, and Ambrosius Aurelianus

Claudas

Claudin

Lancelot-Grail, Le Morte d'Arthur

Constans son of Constantine

Based on the historical figure Constans

Historia Regum Britanniae

Constantine II of Britain

Based on the historical figure Constantine

Historia Regum Britanniae

Constantine III of Britain

Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, c. 1136 Culhwch and Olwen, c. 11th century

Historia Regum Britanniae, Le Morte d'Arthur

Arthur's cousin and successor to his throne, Cador's son

Culhwch

Cousin of Arthur's in early Welsh legend

Cynric of Wessex

Anglo Saxon Chronicle, 9th century

Second King of Wessex, son of Cerdic Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Arthur's court jester Idylls of the King A Knight of the Round Table found in an early German offshoot of Arthurian legend Prose Tristan, Le Morte Son of Sir Brunor D'Arthur the Senior Sister (sometimes half-sister) of Percival, plays a large part in many Holy Grail stories One of Three Sons of King Pellinore, One of the Original 32 Knights of the "Round table"

Dagonet

Daniel von Blumenthal

Daniel von Blumenthal, 1220

Dinadan (Italian: Agrestizia)(Welsh: Danbrann) Also Dindraine or Heliabel depending on the sources)

Prose Tristan, 1230s

Dindrane

Durnure

Sir Durnure

First Named in "King Arthur Meets Lady Guinevere" Howard Pyle

Ector

Lancelot-Grail, Hector, Antor, Ectorius early 13th century

Raises Arthur The Once and Future according to King, Le Morte d'Arthur Merlin's command, father to Sir Kay Brother of Gwyn ap Chrtien de Troyes' Nudd, rival to Erec and Enide (as Erec/Geraint. Yder), Geraint ac Enid, Originally a hostile The Dream of figure, later a member of Arthur's Rhonabwy retinue

Edern ap Nudd

Edern, son of Nudd, Yder, Yver, Isdernus, Knight of the Sparrowhawk

Culhwch and Olwen, c. 1100

Elaine of Astolat

Elaine the White, Elaine Le Morte the Fair, The Lady of d'Arthur, 1470 Shalott

The Lady of Shalott

Daughter of Bernard of Astolat, classic Arthurian figure of unrequited love Wife of King Ban and mother to Lancelot, Evaine's sister Daughter of the Fisher King, mother of Galahad by Lancelot Daughter of Gorlois and Igraine, sister to Morgan le Fay and Morgause and a half-sister to King Arthur, wife to King Nentres. Daughter of King Pellinore, lover of Sir Miles of the Laundes Niece of the Lord of the Fens and wife of Persides the Red of the Castle of Gazevilte Nephew to Arthur, son of Madoc, Uther Pendragon's son Son of Sir Bors and Claire, King Brandegoris' daughter, helps

Elaine of Benoic

Lancelot-Grail, early 13th century Chrtien de The Once and Future Troyes' Perceval, King, Perceval le Gallois the Story of the (1978) Grail c. 1181

Elaine of Corbenic

Amite, Helaine or Helizabel; "The Grail Maiden"

Elaine of Garlot

Elaine of Listenoise

Le Morte d'Arthur

Elaine the Peerless

Eliwlod

Welsh Triads

Elyan the White

(French: Helyan le Blanc)

Lancelot rescue Guinevere and goes into exile with him Chrtien de Idylls of the King, Troyes' Erec and Geraint and Enid Enide, c. 1170

Enide

Enid

Erec's wife

Epinogres

Sir Epinogres

First Named in "King Arthur Meets Lady Guinevere" Howard Pyle

Son of King of Umberland, and brother unto Enchantress Vivien, One of the Original 32 Knights of the "Round table"

Erec

Unclear; first literary appearance as Erec in Chrtien de Troyes' Erec and Enide, c. 1170

See Geraint and Enid

Son of King Lac and a Knight of the Round Table

Esclabor

Father of Palamedes, Safir, and Segwarides Chrtien de Troyes' Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, 1170s Defended a magical fountain in the Forest of Broceliande, married to Laudine Wife of Bors the Elder, mother of Bors the Younger and Lionel, sister of Elaine of Benoic, aunt of Lancelot Bastard son of Tom

Esclados

Evaine

Lancelot-Grail, early 13th century

Faerie Knight,

Richard

The

Johnson's Tom a Lincoln part 1, 1599

a'Lincoln and Caelia, the Faerie Queen, half brother to the Black Knight Half-brother to Percival and King Arthur's nephew Vulgate Queste del Saint Graal, c. 1220, Prose Tristan as interpolation, c. 1230

Feirefiz

Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, early 13th century Chrtien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail, c. 1181

Fisher King, The

The Wounded King, Pelles, Pelias

Guardian of the Holy Grail

Gaheris

Le Morte d'Arthur

Son of King Lot and Morgause, brother to Gawain, Agravaine, and Gareth, and halfbrother to Mordred

Galahad

Lancelot-Grail, early 13th century

Lancelot-Grail, PostBastard son of Sir Vulgate Cycle, Thomas Lancelot and Elaine Malory's Le Morte of Corbenic d'Arthur Former enemy of Arthur who becomes close friends with Lancelot Son of Elaine of Garlot and King Nentres, nephew of Arthur Le Morte d'Arthur, Idylls of the King Also a son of Lot and Morgause, in love with Lyonesse

Galehault

Galehalt, Galehaut

Lancelot-Grail, early 13th century

Galeschin

Galeshin

The Vulgate Cycle

Gareth

Beaumains

Gawain

(Latin: Walwanus, Welsh: Gwalchmai, Irish: Balbhuaidh)

Culhwch and Olwen, c. 11th century

Chretien de Troyes' Conte du Graal, Lancelot-Grail cycle, Prose Tristan,Sir Another son of Lot Gawain and the Green and Morgause, Knight, Thomas father of Gingalain Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur and many short Middle English romances Geraint and Enid Enid's lover

Geraint Guinglain, Gingalin, Gliglois, Wigalois, etc., also Le Bel Inconnu, or The Fair Unknown

Gingalain

Le Bel Inconnu

Gawain's and Blanchemal's son

Gorlois

(Old Welsh: Gwrlais)

Historia Regum Britanniae

Igraine's first husband before she married Uther Pendragon. Father of Morgause and Morgan le Fay.

Gornemant

Chrtien de Chrtien's Perceval, the Troyes' Erec and Percival's mentor Story of the Grail Enide, c. 1170 Palamedes, 1235-40 Palamedes, Guiron Compilation Companion of Meliodas A knight enchanted by Morgan le Fay in order to test Gawain The son of Do (or Don), cousin to Sir Lucan and Sir Bedivere

Guiron le Courtois Bercilak, Bertilak, Green Knight Bernlak, Bredbeddle

Sir Gawain and The Greene Knight, the Green Knight, King Arthur and King 1300s Cornwall

Griflet

Girflet, Jaufre

Jaufr

Gringolet

(Welsh: gwyn calet Chrtien de ("white-hardy"), or Sir Gawain and the Troyes' Erec and ceincaled ("handsomeGreen Knight Enide, c. 1170 hardy")) Culhwch and Olwen, c. 11th century Welsh Triads, Thomas Love Peacock's Misfortunes of Elphin[disambiguation needed]

Gawain's horse

Guinevak

Gwenhwyvach

Guinevere's halfsister

Queen Guinevere

(Welsh: Gwenhwyfar, 'The White Fay' or 'White Ghost')(Latin: Guanhumara)

Culhwch and Olwen, c. 11th century First appeared in the Arthurian saga in Culhwch and Olwen, c.1100. Character is much older.

Many

Wife to King Arthur, famous for her affair with Lancelot One of Arthur's knights. Brother of Edern ap Nudd, rival of Gwythyr ap Greidawl, lover of Creiddylad Half-brother of Lancelot, son of King Ban and the Lady de Maris, Sir Bors and Sir Lionel are his cousins An Anglo-Saxon king killed by Uther Pendragon; Horsa's brother A Pictish plunderer and chieftain, killed by Arthur. Brother to Saint Gildas

Gwyn ap Nudd

Hector de Maris

Ector de Maris

Quest du Saint Graal Vulgate Cycle

Hengest

Hengist

Bede's The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, AD 721

Historia Regum Britanniae

Hueil mab Caw

Huail

Culhwch and Olwen, c 1110

Vita Gildas, Welsh Triads

Hoel

(Welsh: Howel, Hywel)

The Dream of Son of King Budic of Rhonabwy, Geraint and Brittany, father to

Enid Bede's The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, AD 721

St. Tudwal

Horsa

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Brother to Hengest

Igraine

(Latin: Igerna)(Welsh: Eigyr) (French Igerne) Also Ygrayne and Arnive.

Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, c. 1136

Vulgate Merlin

Mother to King Arthur through an affair with Uther Pendragon. Mother of Morgause and Morgan le Fay through her first husband Gorlois. Wife of Mark of Cornwall and adulterous lover of Sir Tristan Iseult of Ireland's mother Daughter of Hoel of Brittany, sister of Sir Kahedin, and wife of Tristan

Iseult of Ireland

Isolde, Yseult, Isode, Isoude, Isotta

Tristan and Iseult

Queen Iseult

Isolde, Yseult, Isode, Isoude, Isotta

Tristan and Iseult

Iseult of the White Hands

Isolde, Yseult, Isode, Isoude, Isotta

Tristan and Iseult

Joseph of Arimathea

Biblical figure; first connection with Arthur is in Robert de Boron's Joseph d'Arimathie, 12th century Lancelot-Grail cycle, Post Vulgate Prose Tristan, Malory's Le

First keeper of the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend

Josephus of Arimathea

Josephe, Josephes

Son of Joseph of Arimathea

Morte D'Arthur (Welsh: Cai, Latin: Caius) Kahadin, Kahedrin, Kehenis, Kehidius; possibly the Welsh character Kae Hir Pa Gur yv y porthaur? 10th century Thomas of Britain's Roman de Tristan Foster brother to Arthur, Sir Ector's son

Kay

Many

Kahedin

Brother to Iseult, Prose Tristan, Malory's son of King Hoel, had an affair with Le Morte D'Arthur Brangaine There are several related characters called the Lady of the Lake. Their actions include giving Arthur his sword Excalibur, raising Lancelot and his cousins as foster children, enchanting Merlin, and taking the dying king to Avalon Son of King Pellinore, brother to Tor, Aglovale, Percival, and Dindrane. Lover of Morgause

Lady of the Lake

Nimue, Viviane, Niniane, Nyneve, etc.

Unclear; a water fay is first mentioned as Lancelot's foster mother in Many Chrtien de Troyes' Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, 1170s

Lamorak

Prose Tristan, c. 1235

Lancelot-Grail Cycle

Lancelot

Lancelot du Lac, Lancelot of the Lake, Launcelot

Son to King Ban and Elaine, most famous Chrtien's Lancelot, the Chrtien de for his affair with Knight of the Cart, Troyes' Erec and Queen Guinevere, Lancelot-Grail, many Arthur's wife, most Enide, c. 1170 others prominent Knight of the Round Table Marie de France's Lanval, Sir Landevale, Sir A knight of King Arthur's court who

Lanval

Landevale, Launfal,

Lambewell

late 12th century Launfal, Sir Lambewell falls in love with a fairy Chrtien de Troyes' Yvain, the Owain, or the Lady of Knight of the the Fountain, Iwein Lion, 1170s

Laudine

Lady of the Fountain

Sir Ywain's wife

Leodegrance Leondegrance

Guinevere's father, King of Cameliard in what is now southwest England Son of King Bors of Gaunnes (or Gaul), brother of Bors the Younger

Lionel

Lancelot-Grail, early 13th century

Lohengrin

Loherangrin, Lorengel

Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, early 13th century

Parzival, German romance Lohengrin, Lorengel, Richard Wagner's Lohengrin

A knight of the Holy Grail, son of Percival

Loholt

Possibly Llacheu, similar Welsh Triads (as Perlesvaus, Vulgate character in Welsh Llacheu) Cycle (as Loholt) sources Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, c. 1136

Illegitimate son of Arthur

Lot

Loth

Le Morte d'Arthur

King of Lothian, father to Gawain, Agravain, Gaheris, and Gareth Servant to King Arthur, Bedivere's brother, Griflet's cousin A fictional Roman Emperor and antagonist to Arthur

Lucan

Sir Lucan the Butler

Le Morte d'Arthur

Lucius

Lucius Tiberius, Lucius Hiberius

Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, c.

Alliterative Morte Arthure, Le Morte d'Arthur,

1136 Chrtien de (Welsh: Luned) (French: Troyes' Yvain, the Knight of the Lunete, Lunet) Lion, 1170s

Lunete

Handmaiden and advisor to Laudine

Lynette

Seeks aid from Arthur to rescue her sister Lyonesse; Thomas Malory's Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Arthur sends an Le Morte incognito Gareth, Idylls of the King d'Arthur, c. 1470 who she berates until he proves his worth Entrapped sister of Thomas Malory's Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Lynette; rescued by Le Morte Gareth, whom she Idylls of the King d'Arthur, c. 1470 eventually marries Culhwch and Olwen, 11th century Son of Modron, kidnapped at birth, rescued by Culhwch Son of Uther Pendragon, brother of Arthur in early Welsh tradition, father of Eliwlod

Lyonesse

Mabon ap Modron

Welsh Triads

Madoc

Madawg

Book of Taliesin

Stanzas of the Graves

Maleagant

Malagant, Meleagant, perhaps Melwas

Unclear, a similar character named "Melwas" appears in the 12th century Life of Gildas

Lancelot-Grail, PostVulgate Cycle, Thomas Abductor of Malory's Le Morte Guinevere d'Arthur

Manawydan fab Llyr

Sometimes Manawyddan

The Mabinogion Culhwch and Olwen (first (circa 1100) appearance)

Originally a British God; appeared as a knight of Arthur's in

Pa Gur yv y Porthaur (circa 10th century) (Latin: Marcus Cunomorus)(Cornish: Margh)(Welsh: March) Possibly based on a historical figure from the 6th century

Culhwch and Olwen

Mark of Cornwall

Post-Vulgate Cycle, Tristan's uncle, Prose Tristan, Le Morte husband to Iseult d'Arthur, Palamedes Father to Mark of Cornwall

Meirchion Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, c. 1136 (unnamed)

Tristan and Iseult

Melehan

Elder son of Mordred

Meliodas

Meliadus

Prose Tristan; Tristan's father was named Le Morte d'Arthur Rivalen in earlier versions Culhwch and Olwen c.1100 Welsh Triads

Father to Tristan

Menw ap Tairgwaedd

Enchanter, member of Arthur's retinue.

Merlin

First mention of his familiar character is Geoffrey of (Welsh: Myrddin), Monmouth's Myrddin Emrys, Merlin Historia Regum Britanniae, c. Ambrosius 1136, but derived from earlier Welsh tales Mentioned as the mother of Mabon ap

Many

Wizard, guide to King Arthur

Modron

Welsh Triads

Mother of Mabon; in another folktale, she is the mother of

Modron in Culhwch and Olwen and the Welsh Triads

Owain (Ywain) and Morvydd by Urien. Possible source for Morgan le Fay In some literature, Arthur's illegitimate son through Morgause (or Morgan le Fay), kills and is killed by Arthur Sorceress, half-sister and sometime antagonist of Arthur, and (in some traditions) mother of Mordred Arthur's half-sister, wife to King Lot, mother to Gawain, Agravaine, Gaheris, and Gareth. In some traditions, also the mother of Mordred Head physician of Arthur's court. Tristan poems of Broul, Thomas, Eilhart von Oberge, Gottfried Irish knight, rival of von Strassburg, Prose Tristan, uncle of Tristan, Post-Vulgate Iseult Cycle, Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur Half-Moorish son of Aglovale

Mordred

Modred (Welsh: Medrawd, Latin: Medraut)

Annales Many Cambriae, c. 970

Morgan le Fay

Morgaine, Morgain, Morgana, Bellicent

Unclear; first mention as Morgan in Many Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini, c. 1150

Morgause

Anna

Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, c. 1136

Morgan Tud

Geraint ac Enid

Morholt

Marhalt, Morold, Marhaus

Tristan poems of Broul and Thomas of Britain, 12th century

Morien

Moriaen

Dutch romance Morien, 13th

century Morvydd Nimue see Lady of the Lake King of the Fairies, sometimes identified as a son of Morgan le Fay Culhwch and Olwen, c. 11th century Chrtien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail, c. 1181 Historical figure Prose Tristan, 1230s, Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur, Owain, or the Lady of the Fountain Daughter of Ysbaddaden, beloved of Culhwch Welsh Triads, Culhwch Owain's twin sister and Olwen

Oberon

Auberon, King of Shadows and Fairies

Olwen

Orgeluse

Haughty Maiden of Logres

A wife of Gawain

Owain

(see Ywain)

Son of Urien

Palamedes

Palamede, Palomides

T.H. White's The Once and Future King

Saracen Knight of the Round Table

Parcenet

A maid from Queen The Story of King Ettarre's court who Arthur and His Knights helps Sir Pelleas King Pellam of Listeneise, Pellehan see Fisher King Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King A Knight of the Round table in love with Ettarre, later lover of Nimue

Pellam

Pelleas

Pellias

Post-Vulgate Cycle, 1230s

Pelles

see Fisher King

Pellinore

Lancelot-Grail, PostVulgate Cycle, Thomas Malory's Le Morte King of Listenoise d'Arthur, T. H. White's and friend to Arthur The Once and Future King As Percival, Chrtien's Perceval, the Chrtien de Story of the Grail, Troyes' Erec and Lancelot-Grail, many Enide, c. 1170 Gerbert's Continuation of Chrtien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail, Post Vulgate Suite du Merlin, Prose Tristan, Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur Achiever of the Holy Grail; King Pellinore's son in some tales

Percival

(Welsh: Peredur) Perceval, Parzifal

Questing Beast

Beste Glatisant (Barking Perlesvaus, c. Beast) 1210

A strange beast quested after by many knights associated with Pellinore and Palamedes.

Lady Ragnell

Sir Gawain's wife, in some legends mother of Percival Chrtien's Perceval, the Thomas Malory's Le Story of the Grail, Morte d'Arthur c. 1181 Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, c. 1136 Appears in many tales, usually as an antagonist

Red Knight

Rience

Ritho, Ryence, Ryons, and Rion

Lancelot-Grail, Post Vulgate Cycle, Thomas King defeated by Malory's Le Morte Arthur d'Arthur Son to Esclabor, brother of Segwarides and Palamedes

Safir

Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, Prose Tristan

Sagramore

Sagramor

Lancelot-Grail, PostVulgate Cycle, Prose Tristan, Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, Prose Tristan

Ubiquitous Knight of the Round Table; various stories and origins are given for him Son of Esclabor, brother of Safir and Palamedes

Segwarides

Taliesin

Historical figure

The Welsh Triads, Story Bard to king Arthur, of Taliesin, Alfred, Lord oldest known Welsh Tennyson's Idylls of the poet King

Tom a'Lincoln

The Red Rose Knight

At least in Richard Johnson's Tom a Lincoln part 1, 1599; possibly mentioned in Robert Greene's Farewell to Folly, 1591 The History of Tom Thumb, Henry Fielding's Tom Thumb and The Tragedy of Tragedies Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur Thomas of Britain's 'Roman de Tristan', the two 'Folies Tristans', Marie de France's 'Chevrefeuil', Eilhart von Oberge, Gottfried von Strassburg, Post-

Illegitimate son of King Arthur through Angelica

Tom Thumb

Reginald Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft

A tiny creation of Merlin. Later becomes Arthur's court dwarf and an honorary knight Son of King Ars, adopted by Pellinore

Tor

Tristan

(Latin/Brythonic: Drustanus; Welsh: Drystan; Portuguese: Beroul's 'Roman Tristo; Spanish: de Tristan' Tristn; also known as Tristran, Tristram, etc.)

Son of Blancheflor and Rivalen (or Meliodas), Iseult's lover

Vulgate Prose Tristan, Post-Vulgate Cycle, Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur Father of Ywain (Owain mab Urien), husband of Morgan le Fay

Urien

Uriens

Historical figure

Welsh Triads

Uther Pendragon

(French: Uter Pendragon; Welsh: Pa Gur yv y Wthyr Bendragon, Uthr Porthaur?, c. Bendragon, Uthyr 10th century Pendraeg) Probably a historical figure; first mentioned in Bede's The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, AD 721 Historia Brittonum, c. AD 820 Culhwch and Olwen, c. 11th century

Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, c. 1136 Welsh Triads

Arthur's father

Vortigern

(Latin: Urtigernus), Guorthigirn, Vortiger, Vortigen, Gwrtheyrn

King of Britain whose decisions assisted the AngloSaxon invasion of Britain

Vortimer

Son of Vortigern

Ysbaddaden

A giant and antagonist in the story Culhwch and Olwen

Ywain

(Welsh: Owain) Yvain, Ewain or Uwain

Based on the Historia Brittonum, Urien's son, historical figure Yvain, the Knight of the Morvydd's brother Owain mab Urien Lion Urien's illegitimate son through a seneschal,

Ywain the Bastard

Ywain the Adventurous

accidentally killed by Gawain