Sir Blamore

Also known as: Blamore / Blamore de Ganis / Sir Blamore de Ganis · Family: King Ban's fellowship · Role: knight · First appears: Book VIII, Chapter XVII

Sir Blamore, also called Blamore de Ganis, is a knight of King Ban’s fellowship. In Book VIII, Sir Bleoberis revealed that Blamore was his brother and that they were sister’s children of Sir Launcelot: “my brother hight Sir Blamore de Ganis, that is called a good knight, and we be sister’s children unto my lord Sir Launcelot du Lake”. At King Arthur’s court, Blamore accused King Anguish of treason for killing his cousin, and when Sir Tristram accepted the battle for the king, Blamore fought him first on horseback and then on foot before being struck down. Sir Tristram spared him, and Blamore and Sir Bleoberis were reconciled with King Anguish; the brothers and Tristram swore never to fight one another again.

In Book IX, Blamore rode with Sir Launcelot, Sir Ector, Sir Bors, Sir Bleoberis, Lucan the Butler, Sir Uwaine, Sir Galihud, Sir Lionel and Galiodin to seek Sir Tristram. He later suffered a severe fall while meeting Sir Palomides, but recovered through surgeons’ care. Though counted among Sir Launcelot’s kin and friends, Blamore was among those who showed hostility toward him in Book XVIII, when Sir Lavaine struck him down; afterward, Sir Launcelot made Blamore Duke of Limosin in Guienne.

Blamore later joined Sir Launcelot’s knights in promising obedience, fought alongside Sir Palomides, Sir Safere and Sir Bellangere le Beuse, and was named among Queen Guenever’s knights. Within half a year of Sir Launcelot taking his religious habit, Blamore and Sir Bleoberis adopted the same habit and remained in penance. After Sir Launcelot’s death, Blamore went with Sir Bors, Sir Ector and Sir Bleoberis to the Holy Land, where “And there they died upon a Good Friday for God’s sake.”