Alice

Also known as: Alice la Beale Pilgrim · Role: daughter of Duke Ansirus · First appears: Book X, Chapter XXXVIII

Life events

• Alice offers herself and her lands to whoever defeats the knight guarding the land.(Book X, Chapter XXXVIII · 📍 Arthur’s court)
  • “what knight may overcome that knight that keepeth that piece of earth shall have me and all my lands.”
• King Mark and Alice had a child named Bellengerus le Beuse.(Book X, Chapter XL)
  • With: King Mark Bellengerus le Beuse
  • “And by Alice he gat a child that hight Bellengerus le Beuse.”

Book X, Chapter XXXVIII

• parent: Ansirus “And this duke had a daughter that hight Alice”
• admired: Alisander “O sweet Jesu, thee I must love, and never other.”
• courtship with Alisander “And when La Beale Alice saw him joust so well, she thought him a passing goodly knight on horseback. And then she leapt out of her pavilion, and took Sir Alisander by the bridle, and thus she said: Fair knight, I require thee of thy knighthood show me thy visage. I dare well, said Alisander, show my visage. And then he put off his helm; and she saw his visage, she said: O sweet Jesu, thee I must love, and never other.”

Book X, Chapter XL

• child: Bellengerus le Beuse “And by Alice he gat a child that hight Bellengerus le Beuse.”

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