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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.

  2. Guinevere, wife of Arthur, legendary king of Britain, best known in Arthurian romance through the love that his knight Sir Lancelot bore for her.

  3. 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).

  4. In Arthurian romance, Guinevere is the beautiful but unfaithful queen of Arthur, the legendary king of Britain. She is known especially for her adulterous affair with Arthur’s knight Sir Lancelot. Guinevere appeared in early Welsh literature as Gwenhwyvar, “the first lady of this island.”

  5. 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.

  6. 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 ...

  7. www.encyclopedia.com › literature-english › english-literature-1499Guinevere | Encyclopedia.com

    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.

  8. The legendary Queen Guinevere is a familiar figure throughout the modern world: young Guinevere, reportedly the fairest maiden of the land, married King Arthur, hero of the fabled Knights of the Round Table.

  9. By the hand of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Guinevere becomes a beautiful lady with a Roman heritage, raised in the house of Duke Cador of Cornwall. Little else is said until the end of Arthur's reign when she betrays the King by becoming the lover of the usurper Mordred.

  10. 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).

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