Sir Bendelaine

Role: knight · First appears: Book VII, Chapter XXXI

Life events

• Sir Gareth defeats Sir Bendelaine in a joust, striking him through the body.(Book VII, Chapter XXXI)
  • With: Sir Gareth
  • “And so they let their horses run, and there Sir Gareth smote him throughout the body;”
• Sir Bendelaine dies after Sir Gareth wounds him in the joust.(Book VII, Chapter XXXI)
  • “Sir Bendelaine rode forth to his castle there beside, and there died.”

Book VII, Chapter XXXI

• rivals with Sir Gareth (They joust against each other; this is treated as rivalry rather than a standing feud.) “Then will I joust, said Sir Gareth. And so they let their horses run, and there Sir Gareth smote him throughout the body; and Sir Bendelaine rode forth to his castle there beside, and there died.”

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