Sir Gilbert the Bastard

Role: knight · First appears: Book VI, Chapter XIV

Life events

Sir Meliot de Logres slew Sir Gilbert the Bastard in battle.(Book VI, Chapter XIV)
- With: Sir Meliot de Logres
- “this day he fought with Sir Gilbert the Bastard and slew him in plain battle”
Sir Launcelot took a sword and a piece of cloth from Sir Gilbert the Bastard’s corpse.(Book VI, Chapter XV · 📍 Chapel Perilous)
- With: Sir Launcelot
- “Then Sir Launcelot stooped down, and cut a piece away of that cloth, and then it fared under him as the earth had quaked a little; therewithal he feared. And then he saw a fair sword lie by the dead knight, and that he gat in his hand and hied him out of the chapel.”
Sir Gawaine struck off Sir Gilbert the Bastard’s left hand during their fight.(Book VI, Chapter XV)
- With: Sir Gawaine
- “And at that time he smote the left hand off of Sir Gilbert the Bastard.”

with Sir Meliot de Logres (Sir Meliot fought and slew Sir Gilbert in battle.) “for this day he fought with Sir Gilbert the Bastard and slew him in plain battle”
rivals with Sir Meliot de Logres “for this day he fought with Sir Gilbert the Bastard and slew him in plain battle, and there was my brother sore wounded”

with Sir Gawaine (Opponents in combat.) “And once I had Sir Gawaine within me, and at that time he fought with that knight that lieth there dead in yonder chapel, Sir Gilbert the Bastard; and at that time he smote the left hand off of Sir Gilbert the Bastard.”

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