Chaleins of Clarance

Family: Arthurian · Role: knight · First appears: Book XVIII, Chapter XXII

Life events

The opening jousts knock down several kings, Chaleins of Clarance, and the King with the Hundred Knights.(Book XVIII, Chapter XXIII)
- With: King Northgalis King of Scots King of Ireland King Uriens King of Northumberland King Howel of Brittany Galahad King Arthur King with the Hundred Knights
- “Then they blew to the field; and there the King of Northgalis encountered with the King of Scots, and there the King of Scots had a fall; and the King of Ireland smote down King Uriens; and the King of Northumberland smote down King Howel of Brittany; and Sir Galahad, the haut prince, smote down Chaleins of Clarance. And then King Arthur was wood wroth, and ran to the King with the Hundred Knights, and there King Arthur smote him down”

rivals with King of Northgalis “The King of Northgalis with an hundred knights with him, and the King of Northumberland brought with him an hundred good knights, and King Anguish of Ireland brought with him an hundred good knights ready to joust, and Sir Galahad, the haut prince, brought with him an hundred good knights, and the King with the Hundred Knights brought with him as many, and all these were proved good knights. Then came in King Arthur’s party; and there came in the King of Scots with an hundred knights, and King Uriens of Gore brought with him an hundred knights, and King Howel of Brittany brought with him an hundred knights, and Chaleins of Clarance brought with him an hundred knights, and King Arthur himself came into the field with two hundred knights, and the most part were knights of the Table Round, that were proved noble knights.”

rivals with Galahad “Sir Galahad, the haut prince, smote down Chaleins of Clarance”

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