Hellawes

Also known as: Lady of the Castle Nigramous · Role: sorceress · First appears: Book VI, Chapter XV

Life events

Hellawes revealed that she created the chapel to entrap Sir Launcelot and Sir Gawaine.(Book VI, Chapter XV · 📍 Chapel Perilous)
- With: Sir Launcelot
- “I have lost all my labour, for I ordained this chapel for thy sake, and for Sir Gawaine.”
Hellawes died from grief after Sir Launcelot departed.(Book VI, Chapter XV)
- “And as the book saith, when Sir Launcelot was departed she took such sorrow that she died within a fourteen night”

admired: Sir Launcelot “And, Sir Launcelot, now I tell thee, I have loved thee this seven year, but there may no woman have thy love but Queen Guenever.”
with Queen Guenever (Hellawes intended to possess Sir Launcelot in defiance of Queen Guenever.) “Then would I have balmed it and served it, and so have kept it my life days, and daily I should have clipped thee, and kissed thee, in despite of Queen Guenever.”
with Sir Gawaine (Hellawes had previously brought Sir Gawaine into the chapel and targeted him.) “I ordained this chapel for thy sake, and for Sir Gawaine. 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.”

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