Queen of Northgalis
Role: queen and sorceress · First appears: Book X, Chapter XXXV
Life events
- King Mark asks two sorceress queens to arrange Alisander's capture or death.(Book X, Chapter XXXV)
- With: King Mark Morgan le Fay Alisander Malgrin Breuse Saunce Pité
- “Then he sent unto Queen Morgan le Fay, and to the Queen of Northgalis, praying them in his letters that they two sorceresses would set all the country in fire”
- Berrant identifies Sir Tristram's helm as passing through Queen of Northgalis and La Beale Isoud.(Book X, Chapter LX)
- With: Berrant le Apres La Beale Isoud Sir Tristram
- “the which helm the king had seen to-fore with the Queen of Northgalis, and that queen the king loved as paramour; and that helm the Queen of Northgalis had given to La Beale Isoud, and the queen La Beale Isoud gave it to Sir Tristram.”
- Queen Morgan le Fay and the Queen of Northgalis enchant the fairest lady into prolonged torment.(Book XI, Chapter I · 📍 tower)
- With: Morgan le Fay
- “and by enchantment Queen Morgan le Fay and the Queen of Northgalis had put her there in that pains, because she was called the fairest lady of that country; and there she had been five years”
- Ladies brought a dead corpse believed to be King Arthur and buried him in the chapel.(Book XXI, Chapter VI · 📍 chapel)
- With: King Arthur Morgan le Fay Queen of the Waste Lands Nimue
- “But this night, at midnight, here came a number of ladies, and brought hither a dead corpse, and prayed me to bury him;”
Book X, Chapter XXXV
- with King Mark (King Mark asks the Queen of Northgalis for sorcerous aid against Alisander.) “Then he sent unto Queen Morgan le Fay, and to the Queen of Northgalis, praying them in his letters that they two sorceresses would set all the country in fire with ladies that were enchantresses”
Book X, Chapter LX
- courtship with Berrant le Apres “the king had seen to-fore with the Queen of Northgalis, and that queen the king loved as paramour;”
- with La Beale Isoud (The queen gave Isoud a helm.) “and that helm the Queen of Northgalis had given to La Beale Isoud”
Book XI, Chapter I
- with Morgan le Fay (They jointly enchant and imprison the unnamed lady.) “and by enchantment Queen Morgan le Fay and the Queen of Northgalis had put her there in that pains”
Book XXI, Chapter VI
- with King Arthur (The Queen of Northgalis was among the ladies who brought King Arthur to his burial.) “Thus of Arthur I find never more written in books that be authorised, nor more of the very certainty of his death heard I never read, but thus was he led away in a ship wherein were three queens; that one was King Arthur’s sister, Queen Morgan le Fay; the other was the Queen of Northgalis; the third was the Queen of the Waste Lands. Also there was Nimue, the chief lady of the lake, that had wedded Pelleas the good knight; and this lady had done much for King Arthur, for she would never suffer Sir Pelleas to be in no place where he should be in danger of his life; and so he lived to the uttermost of his days with her in great rest. More of the death of King Arthur could I never find, but that ladies brought him to his burials;”
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