Lamorak

Lamorak
Matter of Britain character
Sir Lamorack of Gales, Howard Pyle's illustration for The Story of the Champions of the Round Table
First appearanceProse Tristan
In-universe information
TitlePrince, Sir
OccupationKnight of the Round Table
FamilyPellinore (father)
Aglovale, Drian, Percival, Tor, Dindrane (siblings)
Significant otherMorgause

Lamorak /ˈlæmərək/ (or Lamerak,[1] Lamorac(k), Lamorat, Lamerocke, and other spellings) is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend. Introduced in the Prose Tristan, Lamorak reappears in later works including the Post-Vulgate Cycle and Thomas Malory's compilation Le Morte d'Arthur. Malory refers to him as Arthur's third best knight, only inferior to Lancelot and Tristan, and the Prose Tristan names his as one of the top five,[2] but Lamorak was not exceptionally popular in the romance tradition, confined to the cyclical material and subordinate to more prominent characters.

  1. ^ Moorman, Charles (15 July 2014). The Book of Kyng Arthur: The Unity of Malory's Morte Darthur. University Press of Kentucky. p. 57. ISBN 978-0813153605. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  2. ^ Busby, Keith; Thompson, Raymond H. (8 November 2005). Gawain: A Casebook. Routledge. ISBN 9781136783524.