Queen Igraine

Role: queen · First appears: Book I, Chapter III

Life events

King Uther reveals that he fathered Queen Igraine’s unborn child through Merlin’s enchantment.(Book I, Chapter III)
- With: King Uther King Arthur
- “That is truth, said the king, as ye say; for it was I myself that came in the likeness, and therefore dismay you not, for I am father of the child;”
Queen Igraine gives birth to Arthur.(Book I, Chapter III)
- With: King Arthur
- “Then when the lady was delivered, the king commanded two knights and two ladies to take the child, bound in a cloth of gold,”

married with King Uther “Then Queen Igraine waxed daily greater and greater, so it befell after within half a year, as King Uther lay by his queen, he asked her, by the faith she owed to him, whose was the body?”
child: King Arthur “The same night that my lord was dead, the hour of his death, as his knights record, there came into my castle of Tintagil a man like my lord in speech and in countenance, and two knights with him in likeness of his two knights Brastias and Jordanus, and so I went unto bed with him as I ought to do with my lord, and the same night, as I shall answer unto God, this child was begotten upon me.”

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