Lucas

Also known as: Lucas the butler / Sir Lucas · Family: Arthur's host · Role: butler · First appears: Book I, Chapter XI

In Book I, Chapter XI, Lucas the butler was awarded the tourney prize alongside Sir Kay and Sir Griflet by three kings. When Sir Griflet was thrown down, Lucas remounted him, and the two “did marvellous deeds of arms with many bachelors.”

By Book I, Chapter XIV, King Brandegoris, King Idres, and King Agwisance had thrown Lucas and Sir Griflet to the ground. Sir Griflet then struck down a knight, took his horse, and gave it to Lucas so he could mount and revenge his hurts.

In Book I, Chapter XV, Lucas fought beside Sir Gwinas, Briant, and Bellias of Flanders against six kings, including King Lot, King Nentres, King Brandegoris, King Idres, and King Uriens. He also faced King Agwisance directly, charging him with a great short spear and knocking both king and horse to the earth.

Relationship record

Life events

• The three kings awarded the tourney prize to Kay, Lucas, and Griflet.(Book I, Chapter XI)
  • With: Sir Kay Sir Griflet
  • “And after, the three kings went into a garden, and gave the prize unto Sir Kay, and to Lucas the butler, and unto Sir Griflet.”
• Griflet rescues Lucas by giving him a fallen knight’s horse.(Book I, Chapter XIV)
  • With: Sir Griflet
  • “And when Griflet saw rescues, he smote a knight on the temples, that head and helm went to the earth, and Griflet took the horse of that knight, and led him unto Sir Lucas, and bade him mount upon the horse and revenge his hurts.”
• Lucas unhorsed King Agwisance with a powerful spear thrust.(Book I, Chapter XV)
  • With: King Agwisance
  • “Then Lucas saw King Agwisance, that late had slain Moris de la Roche, and Lucas ran to him with a short spear that was great, that he gave him such a fall, that the horse fell down to the earth.”

Book I, Chapter XI

• friends with Sir Griflet “When Lucas the butler saw Griflet so lie, he horsed him again anon, and they two did marvellous deeds of arms with many bachelors.”

Book I, Chapter XIV

• with King Agwisance (interaction) “there was Griflet put to the earth, horse and man, and Lucas the butler, horse and man, by King Brandegoris, and King Idres, and King Agwisance”
• friends with Sir Griflet “When Brastias beheld Lucas the butler, that lay like a dead man under the horses’ feet, and ever Sir Griflet did marvellously for to rescue him”
• with Sir Griflet (interaction) “Griflet took the horse of that knight, and led him unto Sir Lucas, and bade him mount upon the horse and revenge his hurts”
• with King Brandegoris (Brandegoris helps defeat Lucas.) “there was Griflet put to the earth, horse and man, and Lucas the butler, horse and man, by King Brandegoris, and King Idres, and King Agwisance.”
• with King Idres (Idres helps defeat Lucas.) “there was Griflet put to the earth, horse and man, and Lucas the butler, horse and man, by King Brandegoris, and King Idres, and King Agwisance.”

Book I, Chapter XV

• rivals with King Agwisance “Then Lucas saw King Agwisance, that late had slain Moris de la Roche, and Lucas ran to him with a short spear that was great, that he gave him such a fall, that the horse fell down to the earth.”
• friends with Sir Gwinas “All this while Lucas, and Gwinas, and Briant, and Bellias of Flanders, held strong medley against six kings”
• friends with Briant “All this while Lucas, and Gwinas, and Briant, and Bellias of Flanders, held strong medley against six kings”
• friends with Bellias of Flanders “All this while Lucas, and Gwinas, and Briant, and Bellias of Flanders, held strong medley against six kings”
• with King Agwisance (Opponents in battle.) “Then Lucas saw King Agwisance, that late had slain Moris de la Roche, and Lucas ran to him with a short spear that was great, that he gave him such a fall, that the horse fell down to the earth.”
• with King Lot (interaction) “All this while Lucas, and Gwinas, and Briant, and Bellias of Flanders, held strong medley against six kings, that was King Lot”
• with King Nentres (interaction) “All this while Lucas, and Gwinas, and Briant, and Bellias of Flanders, held strong medley against six kings, that was King Lot, King Nentres”
• with King Uriens (interaction) “All this while Lucas, and Gwinas, and Briant, and Bellias of Flanders, held strong medley against six kings, that was King Lot, King Nentres, King Brandegoris, King Idres, King Uriens”

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