Torre

Also known as: Sir Torre · Family: Astolat · Role: son of the Lord of Astolat · First appears: Lancelot and Elaine 1

Life events

Lancelot arrived incognito at Astolat and requested an unmarked shield for the tournament.(Lancelot and Elaine 1 · 📍 Astolat)
- With: Lancelot Lord of Astolat Lavaine Elaine
- “But since I go to joust as one unknown At Camelot for the diamond, ask me not, Hereafter ye shall know me—and the shield— I pray you lend me one, if such you have, Blank, or at least with some device not mine.”

parent: Lord of Astolat (Torre is identified as one of the Lord of Astolat's sons.) “And issuing found the Lord of Astolat With two strong sons, Sir Torre and Sir Lavaine, Moving to meet him in the castle court”
siblings with Elaine (Elaine and Torre are children of the same father.) “With two strong sons, Sir Torre and Sir Lavaine, Moving to meet him in the castle court; And close behind them stept the lily maid Elaine, his daughter”
siblings with Lavaine (Torre and Lavaine are explicitly described as sons of the Lord of Astolat.) “With two strong sons, Sir Torre and Sir Lavaine, Moving to meet him in the castle court”

siblings with Lavaine “Here is Torre’s: Hurt in his first tilt was my son, Sir Torre. And so, God wot, his shield is blank enough. His ye can have.” Then added plain Sir Torre, “Yea, since I cannot use it, ye may have it.” Here laughed the father saying, “Fie, Sir Churl, Is that answer for a noble knight? Allow him! but Lavaine, my younger here,”

with Elaine (interaction) “Then far away with good Sir Torre for guide Rode o’er the long backs of the bushless downs To Camelot”

siblings with Elaine “Then the rough Torre began to heave and move, / And bluster into stormy sobs and say, / ‘I never loved him: an I meet with him, / I care not howsoever great he be, / Then will I strike at him and strike him down, / Give me good fortune, I will strike him dead, / For this discomfort he hath done the house.’ / To whom the gentle sister made reply,”
enemies with Lancelot “I never loved him: an I meet with him, / I care not howsoever great he be, / Then will I strike at him and strike him down, / Give me good fortune, I will strike him dead, / For this discomfort he hath done the house.”
with Lancelot (Torre threatens to strike Lancelot dead.) “Then the rough Torre began to heave and move, / And bluster into stormy sobs and say, / “I never loved him: an I meet with him, / I care not howsoever great he be, / Then will I strike at him and strike him down, / Give me good fortune, I will strike him dead, / For this discomfort he hath done the house.” / To whom the gentle sister made reply, / “Fret not yourself, dear brother, nor be wroth, / Seeing it is no more Sir Lancelot’s fault”

Extracted from the original text of Idylls of the King. Made with Rho MD.