“The Adventures of Sir Launcelot”

1. Chivalry/Heroic Tradition: A knight must be loyal to his lady love

Summary of event: Sir Launcelot was kidnapped by Morgan le Faye and she tried to seduce him.

Connection: when being seduced Sir Launcelot was faithful to his lady, and obeyed the knights code.

2. Chivalry/Heroic Tradition: A knight must champion right against evil, injustice, and cruelty

Summary of event: Sir Launcelot fought sir TArquine because he was kidnapping numerous knights of the round table and being cruel to them. So sir Launcelot rescued them.

Connection: Sir Launcelot (brave knight) fought Sir Tarquine(cruelty) and rescued all the knights and many other prisioners.

Part B: Provide information on each character’s family background, and any significant actions or events associated with them.

1. Arthur: the son of King Uther. Arthur is he King of England by birth and by his act of removing the sword from the stone

2. Gwynevere: Arthur's wife

3. Igraine: Duke of Tintigail wife, the mother of King Arthur

4. Uther Pendragon: Arthur's father who unifies England, but loses control after he uses Merlin's magic to seduce Igraine, the wife of the Duke of Tintigail

5. Merlin:

6. Morgan le Fay: King Arthur's half-sister and an enchantress

7. Sir Launcelot: Arthur's best knight; has an adulterous affair with Guenevere and which sets of the beginning of end for Camelot

8. Duke of Tintigail:

9. Leodegrance of Camilyard Guenevere's father and keeper of the Round Table, which he gives to Arthur as a wedding present

10. Sir Ector :Father of Sir Kay and guardian of Arthur, the future King of England

11. Sir Kay :a young man who wants to go to London to try to remove the sword from the stone; Arthur's step-brother

12. Sir Tarquine an enemy of the knights of the Round Table who is defeated by Launcelot

13. King Bagdemagus

14. King of North Galys

15. Sir Percival

16. Sir Gawain

17. Sir Lyonel

18. Excalibur The sword of kings made by the Lady of the Lake; a goddess who existed at the beginning of time

19. The Holy Grail the cup used by Christ at the last supper; suppose to have regenerative powers.