the king of Scotland

Family: Scotland · Role: king · First appears: Book I, Chapter VIII

Life events

• King Arthur held a great feast at Carlion, attended by several hostile kings and their knights.(Book I, Chapter VIII · 📍 Carlion)
  • With: King Arthur King Lot King Uriens King Nentres King with the Hundred Knights the king of Carados
  • “Then the king removed into Wales, and let cry a great feast that it should be holden at Pentecost after the incoronation of him at the city of Carlion. Unto the feast came King Lot of Lothian and of Orkney, with five hundred knights with him. Also there came to the feast King Uriens of Gore with four hundred knights with him. Also there came to that feast King Nentres of Garlot, with seven hundred knights with him. Also there came to the feast the king of Scotland with six hundred knights with him, and he was but a young man. Also there came to the feast a king that was called the King with the Hundred Knights, but he and his men were passing well beseen at all points. Also there came the king of Carados with five hundred knights.”
• The visiting kings rejected Arthur’s gifts and declared their intention to attack him.(Book I, Chapter VIII · 📍 Carlion)
  • With: King Arthur King Lot King Uriens King Nentres King with the Hundred Knights the king of Carados
  • “But the kings would none receive, but rebuked the messengers shamefully, and said they had no joy to receive no gifts of a beardless boy that was come of low blood, and sent him word they would none of his gifts, but that they were come to give him gifts with hard swords betwixt the neck and the shoulders:”
• The assembled kings laid siege to Arthur’s stronghold.(Book I, Chapter VIII · 📍 Carlion)
  • With: King Lot King Uriens King Nentres King with the Hundred Knights the king of Carados King Arthur
  • “And all the kings aforesaid in a manner laid a siege to-fore him, but King Arthur was well victualed.”
• The kings agreed that Arthur could safely meet them and return unharmed.(Book I, Chapter VIII · 📍 Carlion)
  • With: Merlin King Arthur King Lot King Uriens King Nentres King with the Hundred Knights the king of Carados
  • “But then were they accorded with Merlin, that King Arthur should come out and speak with the kings, and to come safe and to go safe, such surance there was made.”

Book I, Chapter VIII

• with King Arthur (The king of Scotland was among the kings besieging Arthur.) “Wherefore, by the advice of his barons, he took him to a strong tower with five hundred good men with him. And all the kings aforesaid in a manner laid a siege to-fore him, but King Arthur was well victualed.”

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