Anglides

Also known as: Lady Anglides · Family: Cornwall · Role: wife of Prince Boudwin · First appears: Book X, Chapter XXXII

Life events

• La Beale Isoud warns Anglides that King Mark will kill her young son.(Book X, Chapter XXXII)
  • With: La Beale Isoud Alisander
  • “So La Beale Isoud sent unto Anglides, the Prince Boudwin’s wife, and bade her avoid lightly or else her young son, Alisander le Orphelin, should be slain.”
• Anglides flees with Alisander le Orphelin after Prince Boudwin's murder.(Book X, Chapter XXXII)
  • With: Alisander
  • “When she heard this, she took her horse and her child; and rode with such poor men as durst ride with her.”
• Sir Sadok allows Anglides to escape with Alisander after she promises revenge for Prince Boudwin’s death.(Book X, Chapter XXXIII)
  • With: Sir Sadok Alisander Prince Boudwin
  • “would ye depart out of this country with your son, and keep him till he be of age, that he may revenge his father’s death, then would I suffer you to depart from me, so you promise me to revenge the death of Prince Boudwin.”
• Anglides reaches Arundel, where Bellangere welcomes her and reveals the castle belongs to her by inheritance.(Book X, Chapter XXXIII · 📍 Arundel)
  • With: Bellangere
  • “And the Constable’s name was Bellangere; and that same Constable told Anglides that the same castle was hers by right inheritance.”
• Anglides reveals that Alisander’s father was slain by King Mark.(Book X, Chapter XXXIV)
  • With: Alisander
  • “this was thine own father’s doublet and shirt, that he wore upon him that same day that he was slain. And there she told him why and wherefore, and how for his goodness King Mark slew him with his dagger afore mine own eyen.”

Book X, Chapter XXXII

• married with Prince Boudwin “So when he came with his wife Anglides, the king made them fair semblant till they had dined.”
• child: Alisander “So La Beale Isoud sent unto Anglides, the Prince Boudwin’s wife, and bade her avoid lightly or else her young son, Alisander le Orphelin, should be slain.”
• with La Beale Isoud (La Beale Isoud warned Anglides to flee.) “So La Beale Isoud sent unto Anglides, the Prince Boudwin’s wife, and bade her avoid lightly or else her young son, Alisander le Orphelin, should be slain.”

Book X, Chapter XXXIII

• with Sir Sadok (Sir Sadok permits Anglides to escape in exchange for her promise to seek revenge for Prince Boudwin.) “would ye depart out of this country with your son, and keep him till he be of age, that he may revenge his father’s death, then would I suffer you to depart from me, so you promise me to revenge the death of Prince Boudwin.”
• with King Mark (King Mark pursues Anglides and her son to exact further vengeance.) “when King Mark had done this deed, yet he thought to do more vengeance; and with his sword in his hand, he sought from chamber to chamber, to seek Anglides and her young son.”
• with Bellangere (Bellangere, the constable, welcomes and receives Anglides at the castle.) “And the Constable of the castle welcomed her, and said she was welcome to her own castle; and there was Anglides worshipfully received”
• enemies with King Mark “Notwithstanding, when King Mark had done this deed, yet he thought to do more vengeance; and with his sword in his hand, he sought from chamber to chamber, to seek Anglides and her young son.”

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