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Guinevere ( / ˈɡwɪnɪvɪər / ⓘ GWIN-iv-eer; Welsh: Gwenhwyfar pronunciation ⓘ; Breton: Gwenivar, Cornish: Gwynnever ), also often written in Modern English as Guenevere or Guenever, [1] was, according to Arthurian legend, an early-medieval queen of Great Britain and the wife of King Arthur.
Apr 10, 2019 · Guinevere is the Queen of Britain, wife of King Arthur, and lover of Sir Lancelot in the Arthurian Legends best known in their standardized form from Sir Thomas Malory 's Le Morte D'Arthur (1469 CE). She first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain (1136 CE) as Arthur's wife, who is abducted by his nephew Mordred and ...
- Joshua J. Mark
Nov 9, 2022 · Was Guinevere, wife of King Arthur, a real person or merely a myth? Was she a victim or seductress, a damsel in distress or an agent of her own fate?
- Robbie Mitchell
Queen Guinevere Biography. As described by Sir Thomas Malory, Guinevere was the daughter of King Leodegrance of Cameliard whose name is derived from the Welsh and residing at Oswestry and Knucklas Castle.
Queen Guinevere, King Arthur (her husband), and Sir Lancelot (her lover), form the most celebrated love-triangle in European literature. From her origins – probably Welsh – Guinevere’s presence (and non-presence by abduction) runs strong throughout mainstream Arthurian legend: in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Brittaniae, in the ...
- Chapter 18, Book 1 of Le Morte d’Arthur is titled ‘How King Arthur, King Ban, and King Bors rescued King Leodegrance, and other incidents.’ This co...
- Guinevere’s adbuction by men is a recurring theme throughout Arthurian legend, and when kidnapped, she must be saved – the epitome of the damsel in...
- In Le Morte d’Arthur (Book 19) Queen Guinevere happened to go a-Maying in the woods behind Westminster, with her usual retinue of ladies-in-waiting...
- Technically, this wasn’t an abduction. In Le Morte d’Arthur Book 21 Mordred, both son and nephew of King Arthur, was ruler of all England, having b...
May 23, 2018 · Guinevere was the wife of King Arthur , the legendary ruler of Britain. She was a beautiful and noble queen, but her life took a tragic turn when she fell in love with Lancelot , one of Arthur's bravest and most loyal knights.
Born either as a member of a noble Roman family in post- Roman Britain, or as a Pictish princess during the period of the Saxon invasions in the 400s; died in either 470 or 542; married King Arthur, or Arthur, war leader of the British, and according to some traditions had from one to three sons, sometimes referred to as Lohot and/or Amhar or Am...
