Helius

Also known as: Sir Helius · Role: knight and traitor · First appears: Book X, Chapter LXI

Life events

Helius fatally spears King Hermance while he drinks at a well.(Book X, Chapter LXI · 📍 a well)
- With: King Hermance
- “that one that hight Helius he suddenly smote our king through the body with a spear, and so they left him there.”
Helius and Helake killed King Hermance through felony and treason.(Book X, Chapter LXIII)
- With: Helake King Hermance
- “we are the same knights that slew King Hermance”
Sir Palomides declared that he came to avenge King Hermance’s death by fighting Helius and Helake.(Book X, Chapter LXIII · 📍 Red City)
- With: Sir Palomides King Hermance Helake
- “Be ye the two brethren, Helius and Helake, that slew your king and lord, Sir Hermance, by felony and treason, for whom that I am come hither to revenge his death?”
Helius and Helake accepted Sir Palomides’s challenge and appointed to meet him in the city.(Book X, Chapter LXIII · 📍 Red City)
- With: Helake Sir Palomides
- “So they appointed to be at the city within two days.”
Sir Palomides kills Sir Helius by severing his head from his body.(Book X, Chapter LXIV)
- With: Sir Palomides
- “there he smote him such a buffet that he departed his head from the body.”

guardian: King Hermance (Hermance raised Helius as one of two men brought up from childhood.) “our king brought up of children two men that now are perilous knights; and these two knights our king had so in charity, that he loved no man nor trusted no man of his blood, nor none other that was about him.”
with King Hermance (Helius murdered Hermance.) “by the assent of these two traitors, that one that hight Helius he suddenly smote our king through the body with a spear, and so they left him there.”

siblings with Helake “So within the third day there came to the city these two brethren, the one hight Helius, the other hight Helake, the which were men of great prowess;”
enemies with Sir Palomides “Be ye the two brethren, Helius and Helake, that slew your king and lord, Sir Hermance, by felony and treason, for whom that I am come hither to revenge his death?”
enemies with King Hermance “Wit thou well, said Sir Helius and Sir Helake, that we are the same knights that slew King Hermance;”
with King Hermance (Helius participated in the treasonous killing of King Hermance.) “Be ye the two brethren, Helius and Helake, that slew your king and lord, Sir Hermance, by felony and treason”

rivals with Sir Palomides “Then they lashed together many sad strokes, and traced and traversed now backward, now sideling, hurtling together like two boars, and that same time they fell both grovelling to the earth.”
with Sir Palomides (Sir Palomides killed Sir Helius in battle.) “And then he raced off his helm from his head, and there he smote him such a buffet that he departed his head from the body.”

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