Sir Bersules
Also known as: Bersules · Family: King Mark's companions · Role: knight · First appears: Book X, Chapter VII
Life events
- Sir Bersules refused to help kill Sir Tristram and forsook King Mark's service.(Book X, Chapter VII)
- With: King Mark
- “I will never consent to do him to the death; and therefore I will yield my service, and forsake you.”
- King Mark killed Sir Bersules after he refused the murderous plot.(Book X, Chapter VII)
- With: King Mark
- “When King Mark heard him say so, suddenly he drew his sword and said: Ah, traitor; and smote Sir Bersules on the head”
- King Mark treacherously slew Sir Amant and Sir Bersules for refusing to murder Sir Tristram.(Book X, Chapter XV)
- The court learned that King Mark had slain the two knights, provoking King Arthur’s wrath.(Book X, Chapter XV)
Book X, Chapter VII
- admired: Sir Tristram “for Sir Tristram is the knight of most worship that we know living”
- friends with Sir Amant “And one of these two knights hight Bersules, and the other knight was called Amant. So as they rode”
- with King Mark (King Mark slew Sir Bersules.) “When King Mark heard him say so, suddenly he drew his sword and said: Ah, traitor; and smote Sir Bersules on the head, that the sword went to his teeth.”
Book X, Chapter XV
- friends with Sir Tristram “Then the two maidens cried aloud that all the court might hear it, and said: O sweet Lord Jesu, that knowest all hid things, why sufferest Thou so false a traitor to vanquish and slay a true knight that fought in a righteous quarrel?”
- enemies with King Mark “And there he told the damosels how cowardly King Mark had slain him, and Sir Bersules, his fellow.”
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