King of Northgalis

Family: Northgalis · Role: king · First appears: Book VI, Chapter VI

In Book VI, the King of Northgalis brought eight score helms against King Bagdemagus’s four score. Their first clash left eighteen knights dead and forced King Bagdemagus’s party far back, but in the next chapter Sir Launcelot defeated him: “And in that throng he smote down the King of Northgalis, and brake his thigh in that fall.”

By Book IX, he asked Sir Palomides to joust with Sir Launcelot, and Sir Tristram chose his side because Sir Palomides supported King Arthur. King Arthur then awarded him the prize because Sir Tristram fought for him. He fought alongside King with the Hundred Knights against King Carados and King of Ireland, striking down King of Ireland, before King Arthur defeated both him and King with the Hundred Knights. In Book X, he gave his horse to the unhorsed Sir Tristram, saying, “Noble knight, I know thee not of what country that thou art, but for the noble deeds that thou hast done this day take there my horse”; he also stood with Arrouse and Sir Breuse against those of Surluse and fought Earl Ulbawes.

In Book XVIII, the King of Northgalis joined King with the Hundred Knights, King of Northumberland, Sir Galahad, and others in asking Sir Launcelot to receive the honour and prize he had deserved. At the great jousts, he brought a hundred knights against the parties of King of Northumberland, King Anguish, Galahad, and King with the Hundred Knights, while King Arthur’s party included King of Scots, King Uriens of Gore, King Howel of Brittany, and Chaleins of Clarance.