Sir Colgrevance

Also known as: Colgrevance · Family: Round Table · Role: knight · First appears: Book IX, Chapter XXIII

Sir Colgrevance is a knight of the Round Table, also known as Colgrevance. In Book IX, Chapter XXIII, Sir Bors, Sir Bleoberis, Sir Ector, Sir Driant, and Sir Launcelot met and promised to lodge with him that same night.

By Book XVI, Chapter XV, he was known to love Sir Bors well. When Sir Lionel endangered Sir Bors, Colgrevance intervened, drew Sir Lionel away, and fought him, but was gravely wounded. In the following chapter, Sir Lionel struck him down and killed him. Later, at the Castle of Carlisle in Book XX, Chapter II, Sir Agravaine and Sir Mordred concealed twelve knights in a chamber to ambush Sir Launcelot.

Relationship record

Life events

• Six knights meet and promise to lodge with Sir Colgrevance.(Book IX, Chapter XXIII)
  • With: Sir Bors Sir Bleoberis Sir Ector Sir Driant Sir Launcelot
  • “there they met with Sir Launcelot the same night, and had made promise to lodge with Sir Colgrevance the same night.”
• Sir Colgrevance intervenes and pulls Sir Lionel away from the endangered Sir Bors.(Book XVI, Chapter XV)
  • With: Sir Bors Sir Lionel
  • “Then stert he down and took Lionel by the shoulders, and drew him strongly aback from Bors”
• Sir Colgrevance fights Sir Lionel but is gravely wounded and near death.(Book XVI, Chapter XV)
  • With: Sir Lionel
  • “for he had pierced the hauberk and the helm, that he abode but death, for he had lost much of his blood”
• Sir Lionel kills Sir Colgrevance in combat.(Book XVI, Chapter XVI)
  • With: Sir Lionel
  • “At these words Lionel smote him so sore that he bare him to the earth. So he had slain Colgrevance”
• Sir Agravaine and Sir Mordred conceal twelve knights in a chamber to ambush Sir Launcelot.(Book XX, Chapter II · 📍 Castle of Carlisle)
  • With: Sir Agravaine Sir Mordred Sir Mador de la Porte Sir Gingaline Sir Meliot de Logris Sir Petipase of Winchelsea Sir Galleron Sir Melion of the Mountain Sir Astamore Sir Gromore Somir Joure Sir Curselaine Sir Florence Sir Lovel
  • “Then Sir Agravaine and Sir Mordred gat to them twelve knights, and hid themself in a chamber in the Castle of Carlisle”

Book IX, Chapter XXIII

• protégé: Sir Bors “there they met with Sir Launcelot the same night, and had made promise to lodge with Sir Colgrevance the same night.”
• protégé: Sir Bleoberis “there they met with Sir Launcelot the same night, and had made promise to lodge with Sir Colgrevance the same night.”
• protégé: Sir Ector “there they met with Sir Launcelot the same night, and had made promise to lodge with Sir Colgrevance the same night.”
• protégé: Sir Driant “there they met with Sir Launcelot the same night, and had made promise to lodge with Sir Colgrevance the same night.”
• protégé: Sir Launcelot “there they met with Sir Launcelot the same night, and had made promise to lodge with Sir Colgrevance the same night.”
• with Sir Bors (Sir Bors had promised to lodge with Sir Colgrevance.) “Sir Bors and Sir Bleoberis, and Sir Ector and Sir Driant, abode still in the same place thereas Sir Tristram fought with the thirty knights; and there they met with Sir Launcelot the same night, and had made promise to lodge with Sir Colgrevance”
• with Sir Bleoberis (Sir Bleoberis had promised to lodge with Sir Colgrevance.) “Sir Bors and Sir Bleoberis, and Sir Ector and Sir Driant, abode still in the same place thereas Sir Tristram fought with the thirty knights; and there they met with Sir Launcelot the same night, and had made promise to lodge with Sir Colgrevance”
• with Sir Ector (Sir Ector had promised to lodge with Sir Colgrevance.) “Sir Bors and Sir Bleoberis, and Sir Ector and Sir Driant, abode still in the same place thereas Sir Tristram fought with the thirty knights; and there they met with Sir Launcelot the same night, and had made promise to lodge with Sir Colgrevance”
• with Sir Driant (Sir Driant had promised to lodge with Sir Colgrevance.) “Sir Bors and Sir Bleoberis, and Sir Ector and Sir Driant, abode still in the same place thereas Sir Tristram fought with the thirty knights; and there they met with Sir Launcelot the same night, and had made promise to lodge with Sir Colgrevance”

Book XVI, Chapter XV

• friends with Sir Bors “and knew Sir Bors which he loved right well.”
• with Sir Lionel (Colgrevance intervened in combat to protect Bors.) “and Sir Colgrevance ran betwixt them, and said: An ye be so hardy to do so more, we two shall meddle together.”

Book XVI, Chapter XVI

• friends with Sir Bors “Also ye have slain a gentle knight, and one of our fellows.”
• with Sir Lionel (Sir Lionel kills Sir Colgrevance.) “At these words Lionel smote him so sore that he bare him to the earth. So he had slain Colgrevance”

Book XX, Chapter II

• with Sir Agravaine (Sir Colgrevance is recruited as a co-conspirator in the ambush.) “Then Sir Agravaine and Sir Mordred gat to them twelve knights, and hid themself in a chamber in the Castle of Carlisle”
• with Sir Mordred (Sir Colgrevance joins Sir Mordred in the ambush.) “Then Sir Agravaine and Sir Mordred gat to them twelve knights, and hid themself in a chamber in the Castle of Carlisle”

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