Gorlois
Family: Britain · Role: alleged father of Arthur · First appears: The Coming of Arthur 1
Life events
- Bellicent reveals that she is a daughter of Gorlois and Ygerne.(The Coming of Arthur 2 · 📍 Cameliard)
The Coming of Arthur 1
- child: Arthur “This is the son of Gorlois, not the King;”
The Coming of Arthur 2
- married with Ygerne “For ye know that in King Uther’s time The prince and warrior Gorlois, he that held Tintagil castle by the Cornish sea, Was wedded with a winsome wife, Ygerne:”
- enemies with Uther “That Gorlois and King Uther went to war: And overthrown was Gorlois and slain.”
- child: Bellicent “And daughters had she borne him,—one whereof, Lot’s wife, the Queen of Orkney, Bellicent,”
- child: Arthur (A disputed claim made by Arthur's opponents.) “No king of ours! a son of Gorlois he, Or else the child of Anton, and no king, Or else baseborn.”
Guinevere 2
- child: Arthur “And railed at those Who called him the false son of Gorlois:”
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Extracted from the original text of Idylls of the King. Made with Rho MD.