Knights of the Round Table
The Knights of the Round Table were those men awarded the highest Order of Chivalry at the Court of King Arthur.The following have been named as Knights of the Round Table:
- Sir Aglovale, son of King Pellinore of Listinoise
- Sir Agravaine, son of King Lot of Orkney
- Sir Alymere
- Sir Aristant
- Sir Bedivere
- Sir Bors, King of Gannes
- Sir Constantine
- Sir Ector de Maris, the son of King Ban of Benwick
- Sir Florence, son of Sir Gawain
- Sir Lancelot Du Lac (Launcelot)
- Sir Gaheris
- Sir Galahad
- Sir Gareth
- Sir Gawain (or Gawaine)
- Sir Geraint
- Sir Kay
- Sir Lamorak
- Sir Lucan
- Sir Percivale
- Sir Tristam (or Tristan)
- Sir Yvain, son of King Uriens of Gore
The legend of King Arthur is probably best known from Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur, but other chroniclers of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table include Chrétien de Troyes, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Robert de Boron.
Sir Thomas Malory describes the Knights' code of chivalry as:
- To never do outrage nor murder
- Always to flee treason
- To by no means be cruel but to give mercy unto him who asks for mercy
- To always do ladies, gentlewomen and widows succor
- To never force ladies, gentlewomen or widows
- Not to take up battles in wrongful quarrels for love or worldly goods
The Winchester Round Table, which dates from the 1270s, lists 25 names of knights including the twelve listed above.