Manassen

Family: Arthur's court · Role: knight · First appears: Book IV, Chapter XV

Life events

Morgan le Fay freed Manassen and reversed the execution, condemning his adversary to the same fate.(Book IV, Chapter XV)
- With: Morgan le Fay
- “Ye say well, said she, and for the love of him ye shall be delivered, and ye shall have your adversary in the same case ye be in. So Manassen was loosed and the other knight bound.”
Manassen drowned the bound knight in a fountain.(Book IV, Chapter XV)
- “And so threw him into the fountain and drowned him.”
Manassen carried Morgan le Fay's warning that she feared King Arthur not and possessed greater powers.(Book IV, Chapter XV)
- With: Morgan le Fay King Arthur
- “Tell him that I rescued thee, not for the love of him but for the love of Accolon, and tell him I fear him not while I can make me and them that be with me in likeness of stones; and let him wit I can do much more when I see my time.”

cousins with Accolon of Gaul “I am of the court of King Arthur, and my name is Manassen, cousin unto Accolon of Gaul.”
with Morgan le Fay (Morgan rescues Manassen.) “Ye say well, said she, and for the love of him ye shall be delivered, and ye shall have your adversary in the same case ye be in. So Manassen was loosed and the other knight bound.”

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