Placidas

Also known as: Sir Placidas · Family: France · Role: knight · First appears: Book I, Chapter XI

Life events

• Placidas unhorsed Kay, prompting Griflet to attack and unhorse Placidas.(Book I, Chapter XI)
  • With: Sir Kay Sir Griflet
  • “Then came there Sir Placidas, a good knight, and met with Sir Kay, and smote him down horse and man, where fore Sir Griflet was wroth, and met with Sir Placidas so hard, that horse and man fell to the earth.”
• The council sent Merlin with Ban’s ring and assigned Gracian and Placidas to guard their castles.(Book I, Chapter XI)
  • With: King Ban Sir Bors Merlin Gracian
  • “At the last they were concluded, that Merlin should go with a token of King Ban, and that was a ring, unto his men and King Bors’; and Gracian and Placidas should go again and keep their castles and their countries”
• Gracian and Placidas fortified the castles against Claudas while fifteen thousand troops prepared for war.(Book I, Chapter XI · 📍 Benwick)
  • With: Gracian King Claudas
  • “so that they were fifteen thousand on horse and foot, and they had great plenty of victual with them, by Merlin’s provision. But Gracian and Placidas were left to furnish and garnish the castles, for dread of King Claudas.”

Book I, Chapter XI

• rivals with Sir Kay “Then came there Sir Placidas, a good knight, and met with Sir Kay, and smote him down horse and man”
• rivals with Sir Griflet “where fore Sir Griflet was wroth, and met with Sir Placidas so hard, that horse and man fell to the earth.”
• friends with Gracian “and that was a ring, unto his men and King Bors’; and Gracian and Placidas should go again and keep their castles and their countries”

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