Lyonors

Also known as: Lady Lyonors · Family: Arthurian realm · Role: lady · First appears: Gareth and Lynette 4

Life events

• Lynette reveals that four knights besiege Lyonors and seeks Lancelot as her champion.(Gareth and Lynette 4 · 📍 Castle Perilous)
  • With: Lynette Lancelot
  • “‘My name?’ she said— ‘Lynette my name; noble; my need, a knight To combat for my sister, Lyonors, A lady of high lineage, of great lands, And comely, yea, and comelier than myself. She lives in Castle Perilous: a river Runs in three loops about her living-place; And o’er it are three passings, and three knights Defend the passings, brethren, and a fourth And of that four the mightiest, holds her stayed In her own castle, and so besieges her To break her will, and make her wed with him: And but delays his purport till thou send To do the battle with him, thy chief man Sir Lancelot whom he trusts to overthrow, Then wed, with glory: but she will not wed Save whom she loveth, or a holy life. Now therefore have I come for Lancelot.’”
• Gareth defeats the terrifying opponent guarding Lyonors and exposes him as a disguised boy.(Gareth and Lynette 8 · 📍 Castle Perilous)
  • With: Gareth
  • “But with one stroke Sir Gareth split the skull. Half fell to right and half to left and lay.”
• Gareth wins the quest and Lyonors’s household celebrates their deliverance.(Gareth and Lynette 8 · 📍 Castle Perilous)
  • With: Gareth
  • “So large mirth lived and Gareth won the quest.”
• One account reports that Gareth married Lyonors, while a later account names Lynette.(Gareth and Lynette 8)
  • With: Gareth Lynette
  • “Says that Sir Gareth wedded Lyonors, But he, that told it later, says Lynette.”