Garlon

Also known as: the knight Garlon · Role: knight · First appears: Book II, Chapter XII

Life events

Herlews le Berbeus is slain by Garlon, an invisible knight.(Book II, Chapter XII · 📍 King Arthur’s pavilion)
- With: Herlews le Berbeus
- “there came one invisible, and smote this knight that went with Balin throughout the body with a spear. Alas, said the knight, I am slain under your conduct with a knight called Garlon”
Herlews le Berbeus’s tomb records Garlon as the perpetrator of the treachery.(Book II, Chapter XII)
- With: Herlews le Berbeus
- “how there was slain Herlews le Berbeus, and by whom the treachery was done, the knight Garlon”
Garlon, invisible, kills Perin de Mountbeliard with a spear.(Book II, Chapter XIII)
- With: Perin de Mountbeliard
- “there came the knight Garlon invisible, and smote this knight, Perin de Mountbeliard, through the body with a spear.”
Balin killed Garlon at the feast after Garlon struck him in the face.(Book II, Chapter XIV)
- With: Balin
- “Therewith this Garlon espied that this Balin beheld him, and then he came and smote Balin on the face with the back of his hand, and said, Knight, why beholdest me so? for shame therefore, eat thy meat and do that thou came for. Thou sayest sooth, said Balin, this is not the first despite that thou hast done me, and therefore I will do what I came for, and rose up fiercely and clave his head to the shoulders.”

enemies with Herlews le Berbeus (Garlon treacherously killed Herlews le Berbeus.) “Alas, said the knight, I am slain under your conduct with a knight called Garlon; therefore take my horse that is better than yours, and ride to the damosel, and follow the quest that I was in as she will lead you, and revenge my death when ye may.”
with Herlews le Berbeus (Garlon treacherously kills Herlews.) “how there was slain Herlews le Berbeus, and by whom the treachery was done, the knight Garlon.”
enemies with Balin (Balin vows to revenge Herlews's death, which was caused by Garlon.) “That shall I do, said Balin, and that I make vow unto knighthood;”

enemies with Balin “there came the knight Garlon invisible, and smote this knight, Perin de Mountbeliard, through the body with a spear. Alas, said the knight, I am slain by this traitor knight that rideth invisible. Alas, said Balin, it is not the first despite he hath done me”
with Perin de Mountbeliard (Garlon killed Perin.) “there came the knight Garlon invisible, and smote this knight, Perin de Mountbeliard, through the body with a spear.”

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