Sir Lancelot
Sir Lancelot is a knight of King Arthur's Round Table in Arthurian legend, often portrayed as the greatest warrior among the knights and the queen's illicit lover.
His affair with Guinevere ultimately contributes to the fellowship's destruction.
The name evokes chivalric ideals—courage, prowess, romantic devotion—though often with an edge of irony about the gap between noble reputation and flawed behavior: He thinks he's Sir Lancelot, riding in to save the day.
- love triangleThree-person romantic entanglement
- forbidden loveRomance society prohibits
- code of honorStandards governing moral conduct
- MerlinMythical British sorcerer
- round tableEqual-status meeting format
noble knight · chivalric code · Lady of the Lake · Holy Grail · redemption arc · betrayal · valor · Percival · courtly love · Gawain · jousting · heraldry · grail quest · heartbreak · Excalibur · fall from grace · loyalty · guilt
- Arthurian LegendKing Arthur, Merlin, Excalibur, Camelot, Lancelot
- chivalryknighthood, knights, chivalry, medieval knights, honor
- medievalknights, castles, cathedral, kings, queens
- knighthoodknight, knights, knight errant, knights errant, Templars
- knightsknight errant, crusader, paladin, hospitaller, Lancelot
- medieval knightsknight, knights, armor, sword, swords
Sir LancelotMordred
Legendary patricidal knight
Morgan le Fay · traitor · villain · Judas · King Arthur
Sir Lancelotcoward
Person lacking bravery
weakling · craven · poltroon · Sancho Panza · milksop
Sir LancelotSir Galahad
Paragon of chivalric purity
Sir Percival · ascetic · celibate · cold fish
sire, sires, sired, siring, lance, lances, lanced, lancing, lancer