Guinevere

Guinevere was wife and queen to the legendary King Arthur. Although her character has been alternately admirable or despicable in different adaptations of the story, the most common element to Guinevere's character is her adulterous affair with Arthur's greatest knight, Lancelot. This affair is almost always directly linked to the fall of Camelot.

Although it has since become an inseparable part of the Camelot mythos, Guinevere's adulterous relationship with Lancelot was first told in the Medieval poem, Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, written by Chrétien de Troyes. This juicy addition to the story was so popular that it was incorporated into the Lancelot-Grail Cycle as well as Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.

Guinevere was wife and queen to the legendary King Arthur. Although her character has been alternately admirable or despicable in different adaptations of the story, the most common element to Guinevere's character is her adulterous affair with Arthur's greatest knight, Lancelot. This affair is almost always directly linked to the fall of Camelot.

1. Wife of King Arthur and Queen of Camelot

2. Daughter of King Leodegrance

3. In love with, and often adulterous with the knight Lancelot

4. Evil twin sister named Gwenhwyach in the Mabigonian

5. In some legends Merlin warns Arthur of her betrayal

6. Often portrayed at odds with Arthur's sorceress half-sister, Morgan Le Fay

7. The abduction of Guinevere is a common trope in Arthurian Legend

</small> Although it has since become an inseparable part of the Camelot mythos, Guinevere's adulterous relationship with Lancelot was first told in the Medieval poem, Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, written by Chrétien de Troyes. This juicy addition to the story was so popular that it was incorporated into the Lancelot-Grail Cycle as well as Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. </note>

• Also try: King Arthur

• Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• 1953: Knights of the Round Table

• 1963: Lancelot and Guinevere

• 1967: Camelot

• 1981: Excalibur

• 1994: Guinevere TV Movie

• 1995: First Knight

• 2001: Mists of Avalon

• 2004: King Arthur

• Google News Search: Queen Guinevere

• Monty Python's Spamalot

• The Broadway Musical Home: Camelot

• Wikipedia: Guinevere Jones

• Wikipedia: Mists of Avalon

• Google Blog Search: Queen Guinevere

• YouTube: Donovan's "Guinevere" (Time: 03:18)

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