Sir Driant

Role: knight · First appears: Book VIII, Chapter XXXIII

Life events

• Sir Driant jousted the assembled knights but was thrown.(Book VIII, Chapter XXXIII)
  • “And there Sir Driant jousted right well, but at the last he had a fall.”
• Sir Bors, Sir Ector, and Sir Driant promised to rescue Sir Launcelot from the ambush.(Book IX, Chapter XXII)
  • With: Sir Bors Sir Ector Sir Launcelot
  • “and then they promised her that they would be nigh where Sir Launcelot should meet with the thirty knights.”
• Six knights meet and promise to lodge with Sir Colgrevance.(Book IX, Chapter XXIII)
  • With: Sir Bors Sir Bleoberis Sir Ector Sir Launcelot Sir Colgrevance
  • “there they met with Sir Launcelot the same night, and had made promise to lodge with Sir Colgrevance the same night.”
• Sir Launcelot slew the armed knights who opposed his rescue of Dame Guenever.(Book XX, Chapter VIII · 📍 Carlisle)
  • With: Sir Launcelot Sir Belliance le Orgulous Sir Segwarides Sir Griflet Sir Brandiles Sir Aglovale Sir Tor Sir Gauter Sir Gillimer Sir Damas Sir Priamus Sir Kay the Stranger Sir Lambegus Sir Herminde Sir Pertilope Sir Perimones the Green Knight the Red Knight
  • “For there was slain Sir Belliance le Orgulous, Sir Segwarides, Sir Griflet, Sir Brandiles, Sir Aglovale, Sir Tor; Sir Gauter, Sir Gillimer, Sir Reynolds’ three brethren; Sir Damas, Sir Priamus, Sir Kay the Stranger, Sir Driant, Sir Lambegus, Sir Herminde; Sir Pertilope, Sir Perimones, two brethren that were called the Green Knight and the Red Knight.”

Book VIII, Chapter XXXIII

• friends with Sir Lamorak “And there by fortune came Sir Lamorak de Galis and Sir Driant; and there Sir Driant jousted right well, but at the last he had a fall.”

Book IX, Chapter XXII

• friends with Sir Bors “All this battle saw Sir Bors de Ganis and his three fellows, and then they saw well it was the same knight that jousted with them at the bridge; then they took their horses and rode unto Sir Tristram, and praised him and thanked him of his good deeds”
• protégé: Sir Tristram “and they all desired Sir Tristram to go with them to their lodging”
• with Sir Launcelot (Promised to rescue Sir Launcelot.) “and then they promised her that they would be nigh where Sir Launcelot should meet with the thirty knights. And if so be they set upon him we will do rescues as we can.”
• friends with Sir Bleoberis “And with this came Sir Bleoberis and Sir Driant”

Book IX, Chapter XXIII

• patron: Sir Colgrevance “there they met with Sir Launcelot the same night, and had made promise to lodge with Sir Colgrevance the same night.”
• with Sir Colgrevance (Sir Driant had promised to lodge with Sir Colgrevance.) “Sir Bors and Sir Bleoberis, and Sir Ector and Sir Driant, abode still in the same place thereas Sir Tristram fought with the thirty knights; and there they met with Sir Launcelot the same night, and had made promise to lodge with Sir Colgrevance”

Book XX, Chapter VIII

• with Sir Launcelot (Launcelot slew Driant in the rescue.) “For there was slain Sir Belliance le Orgulous, Sir Segwarides, Sir Griflet, Sir Brandiles, Sir Aglovale, Sir Tor; Sir Gauter, Sir Gillimer, Sir Reynolds’ three brethren; Sir Damas, Sir Priamus, Sir Kay the Stranger, Sir Driant, Sir Lambegus, Sir Herminde; Sir Pertilope, Sir Perimones, two brethren that were called the Green Knight and the Red Knight.”

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