Duke of South Marches

Family: South Marches · Role: duke · First appears: Book IV, Chapter XXIV

Life events

Duke of South Marches lodges Sir Marhaus despite intending to fight him.(Book IV, Chapter XXIV)
- With: Sir Marhaus
- “Let him in, said the lord, it may happen he shall repent that they took their lodging here.”
Duke of South Marches reveals his vow to avenge his sons against Arthur’s knights.(Book IV, Chapter XXIV)
- With: King Arthur Sir Gawaine
- “Sir Gawaine slew my seven sons in a recounter, therefore I made mine avow, there should never knight of King Arthur’s court lodge with me, or come thereas I might have ado with him, but that I would have a revenging of my sons’ death.”
Sir Marhaus and Duke of South Marches begin their battle with the duke’s six sons.(Book IV, Chapter XXIV)
- With: Sir Marhaus
- “And so Sir Marhaus arose and armed him, and then there was a mass sung afore him, and brake his fast, and so mounted on horseback in the court of the castle where they should do the battle.”

protégé: Sir Marhaus (The duke hosts Sir Marhaus in his castle.) “Yea, said the duke, thereof shalt thou not choose, and therefore take you to your chamber, and ye shall have all that to you longeth.”
enemies with King Arthur “Ah, said Sir Marhaus, I have heard say that ye have been long time a great foe unto my lord Arthur and to his knights.”
enemies with Sir Marhaus “I love not thy lord nor none of thy fellows of the Table Round; and therefore ease thyself this night as well as thou mayest, for as to-morn I and my six sons shall match with you.”
enemies with Sir Gawaine “Sir Gawaine slew my seven sons in a recounter, therefore I made mine avow, there should never knight of King Arthur’s court lodge with me, or come thereas I might have ado with him, but that I would have a revenging of my sons’ death.”

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