Filling in the Gaps

Why… Because we read an assortment of stories, we need to fill in the gaps before we move on.

The conception of Mordred Mother: Morgause (King Lot’s wife) Also mother of Gawain by husband King Lot Killed by another son, Gaheris, who found her with a guy named Lamorak, whose father was Pellinore, who killed King Lot Father: Arthur (Gasp!)(Morgause’s half brother) Mordred is Arthur’s son and nephew (ewwww) How the heck? Morgause tricked an unsuspecting Arthur

Lancelot One of the most famous knights Tragic failure Mother: Queen Elaine of Benoic Father: King Ban Father killed; mother gone Vivien, Lady of the Lake, raised him in Avalon Where he gets the name “Lancelot du Lac” (of the lake, like Shrek )

Lancelot continued Lady of the Lake sends him to be a knight of the round table Immediately falls for Guenevere Saves her multiple times Taken advantage of by Elaine of Carbonek First time: fathers Galahad; Elaine uses magic to look like Guenevere Guenevere gets mad  Second time: goes insane Cured by the Sangreal Chalice (Holy Grail)

The Holy Grail Cup used by Jesus at the last supper, magical powers Taken to England by descendants of Jesus’ Uncle Joseph; cup hidden and eventually forgotten Centuries later (Arthur era) prophesied that it’d be discovered by the bravest knight, Perilous Seat Perilous Seat belongs to Sir Galahad, Lancelot’s son Lancelot not good enough, because of adultery

Guenevere “Involvement with other men” in all versions, translations of the story She’s a ho, fo sho Kidnapped by Arthur’s enemy, Meliagrance; Lancelot rescues her When she and Lancelot are discovered she’s sentenced to burn at the stake; Lancelot rescues her again In different versions, she either helps Mordred betray Arthur or is forced into; either way – no good In the end, she goes to a convent, when Lancelot comes back to discover this, he goes to a monastery. When she dies in that nunnery, he sickens himself with grief and dies too.