Black Knight

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

Life events

• Red Knight learns that Beaumains killed the Black Knight and overcame the Green Knight.(Book VII, Chapter X)
  • With: Red Knight Beaumains Green Knight
  • “Ah, said the damosel, this knave hath killed thy brother, and Sir Kay named him Beaumains, and this horse and this harness was thy brother’s, the Black Knight. Also I saw thy brother the Green Knight overcome of his hands.”
• Beaumains defeats and slays the Black Knight, taking his horse and armour.(Book VII, Chapter XIV)
  • With: Beaumains
  • “he recountered with the Black Knight, and slew him in plain battle, and so he took his horse and his armour”

Book VII, Chapter X

• with Beaumains (Beaumains is reported to have killed the Black Knight.) “this knave hath killed thy brother, and Sir Kay named him Beaumains, and this horse and this harness was thy brother’s, the Black Knight.”

Book VII, Chapter XXIV

• siblings with Sir Persant “But I marvel, said the king, that I hear not of the Black Knight your brother, he was a full noble knight.”
• siblings with Pertolepe “Sir, said Pertolepe, the Green Knight, Sir Beaumains slew him in a recounter with his spear, his name was Sir Percard. That was great pity, said the king, and so said many knights. For these four brethren were full well known in the court of King Arthur for noble knights, for long time they had holden war against the knights of the Round Table.”
• siblings with Sir Percard “But I marvel, said the king, that I hear not of the Black Knight your brother, he was a full noble knight. Sir, said Pertolepe, the Green Knight, Sir Beaumains slew him in a recounter with his spear, his name was Sir Percard. That was great pity, said the king, and so said many knights. For these four brethren were full well known in the court of King Arthur for noble knights, for long time they had holden war against the knights of the Round Table.”
• siblings with Sir Gherard le Breusse (The Black Knight and Sir Gherard are among the four brethren.) “For these four brethren were full well known in the court of King Arthur for noble knights, for long time they had holden war against the knights of the Round Table.”
• siblings with Sir Arnold (The Black Knight and Sir Arnold are among the four brethren.) “For these four brethren were full well known in the court of King Arthur for noble knights, for long time they had holden war against the knights of the Round Table.”

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