Sir Amant

Also known as: Amant · Family: King Mark's companions · Role: knight · First appears: Book X, Chapter VII

Life events

• Sir Amant and his squires refused further service and threatened to accuse King Mark of treason.(Book X, Chapter VII)
  • With: King Mark
  • “Wherefore we will do thee no more service, and wit ye well, we will appeach thee of treason afore Arthur.”
• Sir Amant agreed not to reveal that the disguised knight was King Mark.(Book X, Chapter VII)
  • With: King Mark
  • “As for that, said Sir Amant, I will not discover your name; and so they departed”
• King Mark treacherously slew Sir Amant and Sir Bersules for refusing to murder Sir Tristram.(Book X, Chapter XV)
  • With: King Mark Sir Bersules
  • “Then anon it was sprung to the king, and the queen, and to all the lords, that it was King Mark that had slain Sir Amant, and Sir Bersules afore hand”
• The court learned that King Mark had slain the two knights, provoking King Arthur’s wrath.(Book X, Chapter XV)
  • With: King Mark Sir Bersules
  • “Then anon it was sprung to the king, and the queen, and to all the lords, that it was King Mark that had slain Sir Amant, and Sir Bersules afore hand; wherefore they did their battle.”

Book X, Chapter VII

• friends with Sir Bersules “And one of these two knights hight Bersules, and the other knight was called Amant. So as they rode”
• with King Mark (Sir Amant rejected King Mark's service and threatened to accuse him of treason.) “When Amant, the knight, saw him do that villainous deed, and his squires, they said it was foul done, and mischievously: Wherefore we will do thee no more service, and wit ye well, we will appeach thee of treason afore Arthur.”
• with King Mark (Sir Amant renounces service to King Mark and threatens to accuse him.) “Wherefore we will do thee no more service, and wit ye well, we will appeach thee of treason afore Arthur.”

Book X, Chapter XV

• admired: La Beale Isoud “Ah, fair damosels, said Amant, recommend me unto La Beale Isoud, and tell her that I am slain for the love of her and of Sir Tristram.”
• 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.”
• with Sir Tristram (Amant professes love for Tristram.) “tell her that I am slain for the love of her and of Sir Tristram.”

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