Archbishop of Canterbury

Also known as: Archbishop / the Archbishop · Role: archbishop · First appears: Book I, Chapter V

Life events

The Archbishop summons the realm’s lords and gentlemen to London to reveal the rightful king.(Book I, Chapter V · 📍 London)
- With: Merlin
- “So the Archbishop, by the advice of Merlin, sent for all the lords and gentlemen of arms that they should come by Christmas even unto London.”
A stone bearing a sword and a royal prophecy appears in the churchyard.(Book I, Chapter V · 📍 London)
- “And when matins and the first mass was done, there was seen in the churchyard, against the high altar, a great stone four square, like unto a marble stone; and in midst thereof was like an anvil of steel a foot on high, and therein stuck a fair sword naked by the point, and letters there were written in gold about the sword that said thus:—Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise king born of all England.”

with Merlin (Merlin acts as the Archbishop's counsellor.) “Then Merlin went to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and counselled him”

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