Elizabeth
Also known as: Dame Elizabeth / Queen Elizabeth · Family: Cornwall · Role: queen and wife of Meliodas · First appears: Book VIII, Chapter I
Life events
- Meliodas weds Elizabeth, King Mark’s sister of Cornwall.(Book VIII, Chapter I)
- With: King Meliodas
- “And by fortune he wedded King Mark’s sister of Cornwall, and she was called Elizabeth, that was called both good and fair.”
- Elizabeth gives birth to Sir Tristram de Liones in the forest.(Book VIII, Chapter I · 📍 forest)
- With: Sir Tristram
- “And so by miracle of Our Lady of Heaven she was delivered with great pains.”
- Elizabeth dies from the effects of childbirth and exposure.(Book VIII, Chapter I · 📍 forest)
- “But she had taken such cold for the default of help that deep draughts of death took her, that needs she must die and depart out of this world;”
- Elizabeth orders that her son be named Tristram, meaning a sorrowful birth.(Book VIII, Chapter I · 📍 forest)
- With: Sir Tristram
- “I charge thee, gentlewoman, that thou pray my lord, King Meliodas, that when he is christened let call him Tristram, that is as much to say as a sorrowful birth.”
- Sir Tristram reveals that King Meliodas and Dame Elizabeth are his parents.(Book VIII, Chapter V)
- With: Sir Tristram King Meliodas King Mark
- “I am King Meliodas’ son, born of your own sister, Dame Elizabeth, that died in the forest in the birth of me.”
Book VIII, Chapter I
- married with King Meliodas “And by fortune he wedded King Mark’s sister of Cornwall, and she was called Elizabeth, that was called both good and fair.”
- siblings with Mark “And by fortune he wedded King Mark’s sister of Cornwall, and she was called Elizabeth, that was called both good and fair.”
- child: Sir Tristram “Ah, my little son, thou hast murdered thy mother, and therefore I suppose, thou that art a murderer so young, thou art full likely to be a manly man in thine age.”
Book VIII, Chapter V
- siblings with King Mark “I am King Meliodas’ son, born of your own sister, Dame Elizabeth, that died in the forest in the birth of me.”
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