Lady Ettard
Also known as: Ettard · Role: lady · First appears: Book IV, Chapter XXI
Life events
- Sir Pelleas chooses Lady Ettard as his sovereign lady and vows never to love another.(Book IV, Chapter XXI)
- With: Sir Pelleas
- “And so he chose her for his sovereign lady, and never to love other but her”
- Sir Pelleas deliberately allows Lady Ettard’s knights to capture and humiliate him so he can see her.(Book IV, Chapter XXI)
- With: Sir Pelleas
- “And every week she sendeth knights to fight with him. And when he hath put them to the worse, then will he suffer them wilfully to take him prisoner, because he would have a sight of this lady.”
- Sir Gawaine plans to impersonate Pelleas, enter Lady Ettard’s castle, and secure her love for Pelleas.(Book IV, Chapter XXI)
- With: Sir Gawaine Sir Pelleas
- “I will have your horse and your armour, and so will I ride unto her castle and tell her that I have slain you”
- Lady Ettard accepts Sir Gawaine and spends two days and nights with him.(Book IV, Chapter XXII · 📍 a pavilion)
- With: Sir Gawaine
- “Now, said Sir Gawaine, it is yourself that I love so well, therefore I pray you hold your promise. I may not choose, said the Lady Ettard, but if I should be forsworn; and so she granted him to fulfil all his desire.”
- Sir Pelleas discovers Gawaine and Ettard together, but spares them and leaves his sword across their throats.(Book IV, Chapter XXII · 📍 the third pavilion)
- With: Sir Pelleas Sir Gawaine
- “And when he came to the pavilions, he tied his horse unto a tree, and pulled out his sword naked in his hand, and went to them thereas they lay, and yet he thought it were shame to slay them sleeping, and laid the naked sword overthwart both their throats, and so took his horse and rode his way.”
- Ettard realizes Gawaine deceived her and that Pelleas is alive.(Book IV, Chapter XXII · 📍 the pavilion)
- With: Sir Gawaine Sir Pelleas
- “Alas! said she to Sir Gawaine, ye have betrayed me and Sir Pelleas both, for ye told me ye had slain him, and now I know well it is not so, he is alive.”
- Nimue enchants Ettard to love Pelleas, reversing her hatred of him.(Book IV, Chapter XXII · 📍 his bed)
- With: Nimue Sir Pelleas
- “And therewith she threw such an enchantment upon her that she loved him sore, that well-nigh she was out of her mind.”
- Sir Pelleas rejects Ettard despite her transformed love and declares lasting hatred.(Book IV, Chapter XXII · 📍 his bed)
- With: Sir Pelleas
- “And when he saw her he knew her, and then he hated her more than any woman alive, and said: Away, traitress, come never in my sight.”
- Sir Pelleas changes from loving Lady Ettard to hating her.(Book IV, Chapter XXIII)
- With: Sir Pelleas
- “And now such grace God hath sent me, that I hate her as much as ever I loved her”
- Lady Ettard dies from sorrow.(Book IV, Chapter XXIII)
- “So the Lady Ettard died for sorrow”
Book IV, Chapter XXI
- admirer: Sir Pelleas “And so this knight promised the Lady Ettard to follow her into this country, and never to leave her till she loved him.”
- with Sir Pelleas (Ettard rejects Pelleas's love and treats him with contempt.) “Wherefore all ladies and gentlewomen had scorn of her that she was so proud, for there were fairer than she, and there was none that was there but an Sir Pelleas would have proffered them love, they would have loved him for his noble prowess.”
Book IV, Chapter XXII
- courtship with Sir Gawaine “Now, said Sir Gawaine, it is yourself that I love so well, therefore I pray you hold your promise. I may not choose, said the Lady Ettard, but if I should be forsworn; and so she granted him to fulfil all his desire.”
- enemies with Sir Pelleas “Truly, said she, that is great pity, for he was a passing good knight of his body, but of all men alive I hated him most, for I could never be quit of him”
- with Nimue (Nimue enchants Ettard and causes her to love Sir Pelleas.) “And therewith she threw such an enchantment upon her that she loved him sore, that well-nigh she was out of her mind.”
Book IV, Chapter XXIII
- enemies with Sir Pelleas “And now such grace God hath sent me, that I hate her as much as ever I loved her, thanked be our Lord Jesus!”
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