Sir Lancelot
Some Arthurian legends include Lancelot du Lac as a figure. He is frequently portrayed as King Arthur's close friend and as one of the greatest Knights of the Round Table. According to the French-inspired Arthurian chivalric romance tradition, Lancelot was reared in the fairy realm by the Lady of the Lake as an orphaned child of King Ban of the extinct Kingdom of Benwick. Lancelot becomes the lord of the castle Joyous Gard and Queen Guinevere's personal champion after serving as a hero in numerous conflicts, expeditions, and tournaments and earning a reputation as an almost unmatched swordsman and jouster. However, Mordred utilizes the civil war that results from his adulterous relationship with Guinevere to overthrow Arthur's kingdom.
In the 12th-century poem Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart by Chrétien de Troyes, he makes his first major appearance. Later, his character was developed in other Arthurian romance novels, particularly the expansive Lancelot-Grail prose cycle, which offered the now-famous version of his legend after Le Morte d'Arthur's retelling of it. There, Galahad, the son of Lancelot and Lady Elaine, succeeds in completing the greatest of all adventures by obtaining the Holy Grail after Lancelot himself fails due to his faults. Galahad lacks his father's character flaws and grows up to be the ideal knight.
