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Leodegraunce
Leodegraunce, Leodogran or Leodegrance, king of Camelyard, father of Guenever, king Arthur’s wife. Uther the pendragon gave him the famous Round Table, which would seat 150 knights and when Arthur married Guenever, Leodegraunce gave him the table and 100 knights as a wedding gift.
The table was made by Merlin, and each seat had on it the name
of the knight to whom it belonged. One of the seats was called
the “Siege
Perilous,” because no one could sit on it without
“peril of his life” except sir Galahad the virtuous
and chaste, who accomplished the quest of the holy graal.
Le
Morte d'Arthur By Sir Thomas Malory
Leodogran, the king of Cameliard,
Had one fair daughter and none other child;
And she was fairest of all flesh on earth,
Guinevere, and in her his one delight.
Idylls of
the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Coming
of Arthur.
"It is absolutely impossible to reconcile the many conflicting
accounts of how King Arthur's Round Table was obtained. One
report is that it was made by Merlin for Uther Pendragon; that
Uther gave it to King Leodegraunce of Cameliard; and that
Leodegraunce gave it as a wedding gift to Arthur when he married
his daughter, Guinevere. Malory confirmed this in his Book of the
Round Table and the Three Quests, when he put these words into
the mouth of the king "I love Guinevere, the King's daughter,
Leodegraunce, of the land of Cameliard, which holdeth in his
house the Table Round, that ye told he had of my father, Uther."
And Leodegraunce, when he heard of the projected marriage, said:
" He hath lands enough, he needeth none; but I shall send him a
gift that shall please him much more, for I shall give him the
Table Round, the which Uther Pendragon gave me; and, when it is
full complete, there is a hundred knights and fifty; and as for a
hundred good knights, I have myself, but I lack fifty, for so
many have been slain in my days." King Arthur received the Table
Round and the hundred knights, "which," he said, "please me more
than right great wishes.""
The
Lost Land Of King Arthur By J. Cuming Walters
