Bishop of Canterbury

Also known as: Bishop / the Bishop · Family: Church · Role: bishop · First appears: Book XXI, Chapter X

Life events

• The Bishop of Canterbury cursed Mordred and fled to Glastonbury to live as a hermit.(Book XXI, Chapter I · 📍 Glastonbury)
  • With: Sir Mordred
  • “So the Bishop departed and did the cursing in the most orgulist wise that might be done. And then Sir Mordred sought the Bishop of Canterbury, for to have slain him. Then the Bishop fled, and took part of his goods with him, and went nigh unto Glastonbury; and there he was as priest hermit in a chapel, and lived in poverty and in holy prayers”
• Sir Launcelot receives a religious habit from the Bishop and begins serving God through prayer and fasting.(Book XXI, Chapter X)
  • With: Sir Launcelot
  • “And then he besought the Bishop that he might be his brother. Then the Bishop said: I will gladly; and there he put an habit upon Sir Launcelot, and there he served God day and night with prayers and fastings.”
• Sir Bors de Ganis adopts the religious habit and begins living in prayer and fasting.(Book XXI, Chapter X)
  • With: Sir Bors
  • “And so there was an habit put upon him, and there he lived in prayers and fasting.”
• Sir Launcelot receives priesthood from the Bishop and sings mass for a year.(Book XXI, Chapter X)
  • With: Sir Launcelot
  • “and then Sir Launcelot took the habit of priesthood of the Bishop, and a twelvemonth he sang mass.”
• King Constantine restores the Bishop of Canterbury to his bishopric.(Book XXI, Chapter XIII)
  • “And so he was restored unto his Bishopric, and left that hermitage.”

Book XXI, Chapter X

• with Sir Launcelot (Religious brotherhood; the Bishop also receives Launcelot into religious life) “And then he besought the Bishop that he might be his brother. Then the Bishop said: I will gladly; and there he put an habit upon Sir Launcelot, and there he served God day and night with prayers and fastings.”
• with Sir Bors (The Bishop invests Bors with the religious habit) “And when Sir Bors saw Sir Launcelot in that manner clothing, then he prayed the Bishop that he might be in the same suit. And so there was an habit put upon him, and there he lived in prayers and fasting.”
• siblings with Sir Launcelot (Spiritual brothers.) “And then he besought the Bishop that he might be his brother. Then the Bishop said: I will gladly; and there he put an habit upon Sir Launcelot, and there he served God day and night with prayers and fastings.”

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Extracted from the original text of Le Morte d'Arthur. Made with Rho MD.