Le Morte d'Arthur

Lord Earl Hernox

Role: earl · First appears: Book XVII, Chapter VIII

Life events

  • A priest reveals that Lord Earl Hernox’s sons abused their sister, imprisoned him, and desecrated chapels.(Book XVII, Chapter VIII)
    • “And for she cried to her father they slew her, and took their father and put him in prison, and wounded him nigh to the death, but a cousin of hers rescued him. And then did they great untruth: they slew clerks and priests, and made beat down chapels, that Our Lord’s service might not be served nor said. And this same day her father sent to me for to be confessed and houseled;”
  • Lord Earl Hernox is released from prison and recognizes Galahad through divine revelation.(Book XVII, Chapter VIII)
    • With: Galahad
    • “And then they brought the Earl Hernox out of prison into the midst of the hall, that knew Galahad anon, and yet he saw him never afore but by revelation of Our Lord.”

Book XVII, Chapter VIII

  • with Galahad (Earl Hernox recognizes Galahad through a divine revelation.) “And then they brought the Earl Hernox out of prison into the midst of the hall, that knew Galahad anon, and yet he saw him never afore but by revelation of Our Lord.”

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