Knight of the Red Launds

Also known as: the Red Knight of the Red Launds / this Knight of the Red Launds · Role: knight · First appears: Book VII, Chapter XV

Life events

The Knight of the Red Launds defeated and executed the knights who came to rescue Dame Lionesse.(Book VII, Chapter XV)
- “when the Red Knight of the Red Launds had overcome them, he put them to this shameful death without mercy and pity.”
Beaumains blew the challenge horn, summoning the Knight of the Red Launds to battle.(Book VII, Chapter XV · 📍 sycamore tree)
- With: Beaumains
- “And therewith he spurred his horse straight to the sycamore tree, and blew so the horn eagerly that all the siege and the castle rang thereof.”

rivals with Beaumains (Beaumains summons the Red Knight to single combat.) “And therewith he spurred his horse straight to the sycamore tree, and blew so the horn eagerly that all the siege and the castle rang thereof. And then there leapt out knights out of their tents and pavilions, and they within the castle looked over the walls and out at windows. Then the Red Knight of the Red Launds armed him hastily, and two barons set on his spurs upon his heels, and all was blood red, his armour, spear and shield. And an earl buckled his helm upon his head, and then they brought him a red spear and a red steed, and so he rode into a little vale under the castle, that all that were in the castle and at the siege might behold the battle.”

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