King Uther
Role: king · First appears: Book I, Chapter III
Life events
- King Uther reveals that he fathered Queen Igraine’s unborn child through Merlin’s enchantment.(Book I, Chapter III)
- With: Queen Igraine King Arthur
- “That is truth, said the king, as ye say; for it was I myself that came in the likeness, and therefore dismay you not, for I am father of the child;”
- Sir Ector swears to raise Arthur as King Uther requests.(Book I, Chapter III)
- With: Sir Ector
- “And when Sir Ector was come he made fiaunce to the king for to nourish the child like as the king desired;”
Book I, Chapter III
- married with Queen Igraine “Then Queen Igraine waxed daily greater and greater, so it befell after within half a year, as King Uther lay by his queen, he asked her, by the faith she owed to him, whose was the body?”
- child: King Arthur “That is truth, said the king, as ye say; for it was I myself that came in the likeness, and therefore dismay you not, for I am father of the child;”
- liege: Sir Ector (King Uther is the liege to whom Sir Ector pledges himself.) “And when Sir Ector was come he made fiaunce to the king for to nourish the child like as the king desired”
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Extracted from the original text of Le Morte d'Arthur. Made with Rho MD.