Leodegrance

Also known as: King Leodegrance / King Leodegrance of Cameliard · Family: Cameliard · Role: king · First appears: Book I, Chapter XVII

As king of Cameliard, Leodegrance was at war with King Rience, who made great war on him and laid siege to his kingdom. King Arthur, who loved Leodegrance and hated King Rience, came with King Ban and Sir Bors to rescue him; they defeated much of Rience’s force, put him to flight, and received Leodegrance’s thanks for revenging his enemies.

In Book III, Chapter I, Merlin brought King Arthur’s request to marry Leodegrance’s daughter, Queen Guenever. Leodegrance welcomed the proposal as “the best tidings that ever I heard,” then delivered Queen Guenever to Merlin for the journey and gave King Arthur the Round Table with its hundred knights, which Uther Pendragon had given him.

Relationship record

Life events

• Rience wages war against Leodegrance, angering Arthur and deepening their hostility.(Book I, Chapter XVII)
  • With: King Rience King Arthur
  • “Then there came word that the King Rience of North Wales made great war on King Leodegrance of Cameliard”
• Arthur, Ban, and Bors rescued Leodegrance and defeated Rience’s forces.(Book I, Chapter XVIII · 📍 Cameliard)
  • With: King Arthur King Ban Sir Bors King Rience
  • “came within six days into the country of Cameliard, and there rescued King Leodegrance, and slew there much people of King Rience, unto the number of ten thousand men, and put him to flight.”
• Rience laid siege to Leodegrance.(Book I, Chapter XVIII)
  • With: King Rience
  • “and as for King Rience, he hath enough to do with Leodegrance, for he hath laid siege unto him.”
• Merlin conveyed Arthur’s request to marry Guenever to her father, Leodegrance.(Book III, Chapter I · 📍 Cameliard)
  • With: Merlin King Arthur Queen Guenever
  • “Merlin went forth unto King Leodegrance of Cameliard, and told him of the desires of the king that he would have unto his wife Guenever his daughter.”
• Leodegrance welcomed the proposed marriage between Guenever and King Arthur.(Book III, Chapter I · 📍 Cameliard)
  • With: King Arthur Queen Guenever
  • “That is to me, said King Leodegrance, the best tidings that ever I heard, that so worthy a king of prowess and noblesse will wed my daughter.”
• Leodegrance delivered Guenever to Merlin for the journey to Arthur.(Book III, Chapter I · 📍 Cameliard)
  • With: Merlin Queen Guenever
  • “And so Leodegrance delivered his daughter Guenever unto Merlin”
• Leodegrance gave Arthur the Round Table inherited from Uther Pendragon.(Book III, Chapter I · 📍 Cameliard)
  • With: Merlin King Arthur
  • “and the Table Round with the hundred knights”

Book I, Chapter XVII

• friends with King Arthur “Then there came word that the King Rience of North Wales made great war on King Leodegrance of Cameliard, for the which thing Arthur was wroth, for he loved him well, and hated King Rience, for he was alway against him.”
• enemies with King Rience “the King Rience of North Wales made great war on King Leodegrance of Cameliard”

Book I, Chapter XVIII

• with King Arthur (Arthur rescued Leodegrance.) “And then King Arthur, and King Ban, and King Bors departed with their fellowship, a twenty thousand, and came within six days into the country of Cameliard, and there rescued King Leodegrance, and slew there much people of King Rience, unto the number of ten thousand men, and put him to flight.”
• with King Ban (Ban rescued Leodegrance.) “And then King Arthur, and King Ban, and King Bors departed with their fellowship, a twenty thousand, and came within six days into the country of Cameliard, and there rescued King Leodegrance, and slew there much people of King Rience, unto the number of ten thousand men, and put him to flight.”
• with Sir Bors (Bors rescued Leodegrance.) “And then King Arthur, and King Ban, and King Bors departed with their fellowship, a twenty thousand, and came within six days into the country of Cameliard, and there rescued King Leodegrance, and slew there much people of King Rience, unto the number of ten thousand men, and put him to flight.”
• protégé: King Arthur “And then had these three kings great cheer of King Leodegrance, that thanked them of their great goodness, that they would revenge him of his enemies;”
• protégé: King Ban “And then had these three kings great cheer of King Leodegrance, that thanked them of their great goodness, that they would revenge him of his enemies;”
• protégé: Sir Bors “And then had these three kings great cheer of King Leodegrance, that thanked them of their great goodness, that they would revenge him of his enemies;”
• child: Queen Guenever “and there had Arthur the first sight of Guenever, the king’s daughter of Cameliard, and ever after he loved her.”

Book III, Chapter I

• with Merlin (Leodegrance entrusted Guenever to Merlin for the journey.) “And so Leodegrance delivered his daughter Guenever unto Merlin”
• with Uther Pendragon (Uther Pendragon previously gave Leodegrance the Round Table.) “for I shall give him the Table Round, the which Uther Pendragon gave me”

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