CONTRIBUTION OF KNIGHTS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
trusted of the Knights of the Round Table
 The knights in the Middle Ages was accorded the
highest rank of society and often a member of
the king’s court
 They role in stories or epics is not only a warrior
but a lover.
 Mostly adventure, wars and romances.
Knights in Story/Epic/Poem
 The knights were bound to womanhood through
the oaths they have sworn.
 The knight must be loyal and faithful.
 Win his lady through the acts of faithfulness,
manliness, skill, patience and loyalty.
Epics and Tales
 Arthurian Romances
 Arthurian legends
 Le Morte d'Arthur
ROUND TABLE
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table - the
concept of Equality
The significance of the Round Table was that no one
person, not even King Arthur, would be able to sit at the
head of such a table. A round table enforced the
concept of equality. The legend states that King Arthur
ordered the Round Table to be built in order to resolve a
conflict among his knights concerning who should have
precedence. The Round Table was therefore built to
ensure that all the Knights of the Round Table were
deemed equal and each of the seats at the Round Table
were highly favored places.
King Arthur and the Names of Knights of the Round Table
 King Arthur
 Sir Galahad - This knight was the illegitimate son
of Sir Lancelot
 Sir Launcelot Deulake ( Sir Lancelot du Lac who
fell in love with Queen Guinevere )
 Sir Gawain - This knight was famed for fighting the
Green Knight
 Sir Percivale - This knight was famed for fighting
the Red Knight
 Sir Lionel - This knight was brother of Sir Bors and
cousin to Sir Lancelot
 Sir Tristram de Lyones - This knight was the son of
King Meliodas & Queen Isabelle of Lyonesse -
second greatest of the Knights of the Round
Table
 Sir Gareth - Sir Kay was the mentor of this young
knight
 Sir Bedivere - a giant of a Knight
 Sir Bleoberis - This knight was This knight was an
arrogant Knight who later became a hermit
 Sir Brunor le Noir - aka La Cote Male Taile
because he arrived in Camelot wearing an ill-
fitting coat which had belonged to his dead
father
 Sir Lucan - This knight was a most loyal and
 Sir Palomides - who was a Saracen knight
 Sir Lamorak - This knight was This knight was the
third greatest of the Knights of the Round Table
 Sir Bors de Ganis - This knight was brother of Sir
Lionel and cousin to Sir Lancelot
 Sir Safir - This knight was a Christian Knight of
Saracen descent
 Sir Pelleas - This knight was of low birth but one of
the bravest of the Knights of the Round Table
 Sir Kay - King Arthur's foster-brother
 Sir Ector de Maris - This knight was the Ladies man
of the Knights of the Round Table
 Sir Dagonet - The jester of King Arthur
 Sir Tegyr - This knight was the cup-bearer of King
Arthur
 Sir Lybyus Dysconyus - Sir Guinglain was Sir
Gawain's eldest son
 Sir Alymere - This knight was totally loyal to King
Arthur
 Sir Mordred - This knight was the treacherous Sir
Mordred the son of King Arthur
Arthurian Romances
 EREC AND ENIDE
 CLIGES
 YVAIN, THE KNIGHT OF THE LION
 LANCELOT, THE KNIGHT OF THE CART
 PERCEVAL, THE STORY OF THE GRAIL
CONTRIBUTION OF KNIGHTS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
 Priests are good teachers as well as writers.
 They write manuscripts/scriptures concerning
their religion or beliefs.
 Priests serve as “scientists” or “laboratory
workers”. Some even write about the history of
their country
Venerable Bede
 Also referred to as Saint Bede or Bede.
 He wrote the Ecclesiastical History of the English
nation.
 Some of the old manuscripts are being kept and
preserved in museums for exhibits as well as for
further studies about it
Ecclesiastical History
 Ecclesiastical History, or, The Church History of
Eusebius, the bishop of Caesarea was a 4th-
century pioneer work giving a chronological
account of the development of Early Christianity
from the 1st century to the 4th century.
 It was written in Koine Greek, and survives also in
Latin, Syriac and Armenian manuscripts.
Bede was well known as an author and scholar, and his
most famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
"The Father of English history"