In addition to his courage and prowess on the battlefield, Lancelot was also a knight who was consistently serving others, thus giving him a good name and favor among most circles. It has been said that Lancelot was the greatest fighter and swordsman of all the Knights of the Round Table , and yet he was also extremely intelligent and known for his charm and humor.
Legend tells us that as a child, Lancelot was left by the shore of The Lake , where he was found by Vivien, the Lady of the Lake. Legend tells us that Lancelot was the father of Galahad by Elaine. Lancelot saw the Copper Knight, who was leaning too far out the wall. Brandin fell off the other side of the wall, killing one of his own knights in his fall.
Lancelot immediately attacked the other nine mounted knights all at once. Lancelot killed another knight in the joust. Surprised at this outcome, the eight remaining mounted knights tried to flee from the White Knight. Lancelot forced three knights, who could not escape, to surrender as his prisoners. Lancelot chased the other five knights through the gate, but could not capture any of them.
The townspeople gathered around Lancelot welcoming to Dolorous Guard, hoping that the White Knight could free them of the terrible curse and custom. However, the Copper Knight Brandin had escaped.
The White Knight was now the new lord of Dolorous Guard. They brought the White Knight to a cemetery, where he found helms and tombstones of many knights; many of them belonged to the fellowship of the Round Table. The White Knight found a great slab of metal, with writing that stated: only one knight could lift the slab, and his name will be reveal underneath the slab.
Lancelot easily lifted the slab and discovered that his name was written there; he also learnt that he was the son of King Ban of Banoic. Only the damsel, who gave him the three shields, saw his name, before he could hide it from everybody. No one else knew his name. Everyone was upset that their old lord had escaped. Brandin had fled to a small castle, because the enchantment curse was yet to be lifted.
News arrived in Camelot, that a single knight had conquered Dolorous Guard. Everyone in court was surprised, and was not certain if the news was true. Arthur sent his nephew Gawain with Yvain and eight other knights to verify the news. Gawain and his companions arrived at Dolorous Guard, to find the first gate opened, while the second gate was closed.
The gatekeeper told the companions, to come by the next morning, and then he would open the gate to them. One man outside of Dolorous Guard offered them lodging. At the lodge, as they disarmed and went to the next room to rest, they found the dorm was filled with armed knights.
It was a trap. The companions were powerless to resist the armed knights. The ten companions were carried off to the small castle on a river island , which belonged to the former lord of Dolorous Guard; this prison was called Dolorous Prison. Lohot had contracted an illness since he had been in prison. When Gawain had not return from Dolorous Guard, Arthur became concern.
The king arrived at Dolorous Guard to find the gate close to him. The gatekeeper told Arthur to send someone to the gate every hour, until the White Knight Lancelot decided to open the gate to them.
For four days, Arthur send one of his knights at every hour, for entry into the castle, each time it was refused, until Queen Guinevere asked permission to enter the castle. Lancelot became upset, when Guinevere left in anger. That night, Lancelot learned from a damsel that Gawain and his companions were either killed or captured. When he went to investigate, he recognised the damsel as another attendant of the Lady of the Lake. She took Lancelot to where he could find the people who held Gawain and others as prisoners.
When he saw fifteen knights including the Copper Knight Brandin , Lancelot attacked them. None put up any resistance, but tried to flee back to the island. Lancelot was upset when Brandin had escaped to the little island. Lancelot captured Brandin who agreed to become prisoner of the monk. Lancelot promised to release him if he would release Gawain and all those he held in prison.
Brandin agreed and had all the prisoners released from Dolorous Prison. When Gawain and his companion all arrived at the hermitage, Lancelot reluctantly released Brandin. Gawain and his companion all agreed to stay in the hermitage until Lancelot allowed them to leave.
No one recognised Lancelot, because he always worn his helmet in their presence, and he had a different shield than the one he was knighted in. They were unsuccessful in trying to gain information about the knight who captured the castle, nor what had happened to Gawain and his companions. Lancelot then returned to the hermitage and allowed Gawain and the others to leave.
Instead of returning to Dolorous Guard with Gawain, Lancelot left to seek new adventure. Gawain and the others went to Dolorous Guard, and were reunited with Arthur. Gawain told them that a White Knight had released them from prison. Joyous Guard, Joyeuse Garde. Lancelot decided to attend the tournament, but he was wounded before he arrived, in some minor adventures.
Gawain who watched the battle, was impressed with White Knight but did not recognised him because he worn a different shield. In the joust, Lancelot received a serious wound, but still fought very well, until his wound finally overcame him. Both Arthur and Galehaut admired the White Knight prowess in combat.
Arthur and Galehaut decided to meet in another battle at a later date. Lancelot asked the doctor that if he could be treated at another place, because he did not wished to be recognised by anyone.
As he travelled in a litter, the Lady of Nohaut found him and took Lancelot back to her castle, refusing to let him leave until he had recovered. Lancelot decided to leave the Lady of Nohaut, when one of the damsel of the Lady of the Lake, arrived with Gawain.
She bore a message from another damsel, who given him the three shields. She could not leave Dolorous Guard until she had permission to leave. Lancelot sends the damsel back to Dolorous Guard, with his ring, giving the damsel of the three shields, permission to leave anytime she wishes.
To release her from prison, he had to return to Dolorous Guard, however, it was a trap. Lancelot became a prisoner instead.
The townspeople were upset with him for secretly leaving without lifting the curse from the castle. Lancelot agreed to lift the enchantment from castle. They took him back to cemetery where lie an ancient chapel. The chapel had an entrance to underground vault. Armed with his weapon he entered a tunnel and found door guarded by two copper knights. Though he had won past them through the door, he received a wound to his shoulder. Lancelot found himself in a chamber with a Well of Blackness.
On the other side of well was an axe-wielding black knight, who had flames coming out his mouth. Lancelot charged towards the well. He threw his shield at the black knight before leaping across the well. The shield shattered on impact, before he crashed into the knight.
With his hands he strangled the black knight to death. Then Lancelot threw the black knight into the well. Lancelot entered another chamber with copper pillars, to find a copper woman holding a set of keys. The White Knight took the keys and went to the centre of chamber. The largest pillar had writing that indicates which key was for which lock. The large key unlocked the pillar that contained a chest.
The other key was for the Perilous Chest. Once the chest was opened, demons or the enchantment was broken. As Lancelot left the chamber with the keys, the copper women and the copper knights were destroyed, while the Well of Blackness had vanished. He left the chapel to find the people of the castle to greet him. They informed Lancelot that Queen Guinevere was never imprisoned here; it was just a ruse to bring him back to remove the enchantment on the castle.
Lancelot was now their new lord, and Dolorous Guard was renamed to Joyous Guard. Lancelot left the next morning to participate the next encounter between Arthur and Galehaut. The two damsels of the Lady of the Lake aided Gawain, who continued to search for identity of the White Knight and the conqueror Dolorous Guard.
When they found the White Knight, Lancelot stubbornly refused to reveal his name. Since Gawain had done so much for the damsel rescuing her from the treacherous knight named Brehu the Pitiless , she owed Gawain the truth.
Lancelot was upset with the damsel, though he allowed her to journey with him. The other damsel the one who gave him three shields returned to the Lady of the Lake. Gawain had completed his quest. Gawain returned to Camelot and told everyone interested in the name of the White Knight.
The damsel, who had followed Lancelot, was locked on the other side of the castle gate when Lancelot was attacked. She thought Lancelot had died fighting. The Lady however allowed Lancelot to attend the first battle between Arthur and Galehaut, on the condition he returns to her prison, when the battle was over.
Galehaut called for a truce to meet one year from now, asking Arthur to bring a larger army to face him.
Both armies withdrew from the battlefield. After the battle, Lancelot returned to Malohaut Prison. The Lady of Malohaut was curious of who this White Knight was. The lady and her cousin, saw that he armour and weapon show great sign of wears, while he had returned with different horse to the one he left with. As Lancelot slept naked in the prison cell, the lady and her cousin saw that his body shows recent signs of cuts and bruises, further proving that he was not idle in the battle.
While he slept unnoticed of the attention around him, the Lady of Malohaut would have kissed Lancelot had her cousin stopped her. It was clear that the Lady of Malohaut had fallen in love with Lancelot. The next day, the Lady of Malohaut was determined to find out the name of her handsome prisoner.
Lancelot refused to reveal his name to the lady. She pretended to be angry with him, even threatening the hero with death or longer and harder prison sentence. Lancelot defiantly refused to budge in this issue, and meekly returned to his cell. The Lady of Malohaut went to Camelot on her quest to find the identity of her unnamed prisoner. Though she did not find out his name, she was satisfied in knowing that he was not the member of the Round Table. The Lady threatened that he would never leave his prison cell, unless he answers one of her questions: What was his name?
Which lady did he love? If he would perform better than the last battle? Lancelot did not want to answer any of the questions, but he also did not want to miss the coming battle.
Lancelot answered the last question. Satisfied, the Lady of Malohaut told Lancelot could leave, but she asked him to stay until the battle takes place. She promised him new armour and weapons. A couple months after the battle, Gawain had fully recovered from his wounds.
He set out on the new quest with forty other knights, to find Lancelot and bring him to help them in the next battle. None of the knights returned with any success by the time of the next battle. However, his smaller force was nearly overwhelmed, before the battle was called for the day.
Gawain dropped down unconscious from exhaustion and even more serious wounds than last year. Arthur and men feared that Gawain might have been mortally wounded; they were greatly demoralised with Gawain out of action for weeks.
Lancelot was distressed when he heard that the battle had taken place, and that Gawain was probably mortally wounded. The Lady of Malohaut assured Lancelot that the fighting would not resume till another three days.
When Lancelot arrived in the battle, the Lady of Malohaut suspected that Lancelot must love one of the ladies whom watch the battle. Seeing the knight in black armour, she asked many of the ladies to request the Black Knight to fight the battle in their honour.
Gawain watching the Black Knight, suspected the new arrival, that Black Knight was Lancelot, wearing new armour. Gawain sent his own squire, to give Lancelot three lances.
Lancelot would unhorse many enemy knights, wearing down the three lances, before returning to the hill to watch the battle. When the Lady of Malohaut and Gawain persuaded Guinevere to ask to the Black Knight to perform deeds of arms in her honour. When Lancelot rejoined the battle, the Lady of Malohaut firmly believed that Lancelot was in love with the queen.
In the fighting, he unhorsed the First Conquered King and man of his knights. Galehaut suspected that he was the same knight who attended the other encounters. Galehaut admired the Black Knight so much that he would do anything to win his friendship. Before the end of the day, Galehaut met the Black Knight and persuaded him to lodge with him. When Galehaut promised anything to the Black Knight, Lancelot told him to surrender when Arthur thought he was facing a humiliating defeat.
Gawain however recognised him as the same person as the Black Knight. Arthur was facing a crushing and humiliating defeat, when Lancelot asked Galehaut to fulfil his promise. Out of his love for his new friend, Galehaut came before Arthur to surrender to the surprised king, when Galehaut asked the King of Logres for his forgiveness.
Galehaut had dined with Arthur and his queen for several nights. Galehaut returned to his own camp in the morning to find that his companion had been weeping. Galehaut had unsuccessfully tried to comfort Lancelot. Yet everything he had accomplished was due to his love for the beautiful queen. Lancelot was not even British subject to Arthur; Lancelot was a foreign prince from across the English Channel.
Yet, Lancelot wanted Galehaut to compile with every wishes of Arthur. Several days later, Lancelot agreed to a private meeting with the queen, to be arranged by Galehaut. Lancelot did not wish to meet anyone who would recognise him. Galehaut arrange for them to meet one late afternoon. Galehaut left them alone so that they could talk and join a group of ladies that Guinevere had brought along. One of the ladies was the Lady of Malohaut, who had imprisoned Lancelot. She easily recognised her former prisoner.
Lancelot was overwhelmed and embarrassed in her presence. Guinevere persistently discovered that he was the same knight who through various guises and his own prowess, which he achieved through great deeds of arms. As one secret after another was revealed, Guinevere recognised that he was Lancelot of the Lake. More questioning revealed that the young hero was in love with her, and that all he had done was for her sake, not Arthur.
During the talk, Lancelot recognised the Lady of Malohaut; Lancelot became upset because he knew she had recognised him. At first, Guinevere thought Lancelot was in love with one of the ladies. When Guinevere told him this, Lancelot was so upset that the queen thought he was going to faint. When Galehaut found that suspicion proved to be true.
She even agreed to kiss Lancelot, as a token of her love for the hero. Galehaut arranged that they would kiss one another, while Galehaut blocked the view from the ladies. However, the Lady of Malohaut knew something was going on, and she wanted to become part of it. She knew now that Lancelot was in love with the queen. She confronted the queen, saying that she would her help with Lancelot.
Guinevere and the Lady of Malohaut became good friend, and the queen arranged Galehaut and her new companion to become lovers. Everyday they secretly made arrangement where Lancelot and Guinevere could kiss.
Both Galehaut and Arthur decided to return to their respective kingdoms. Lancelot was to go with Galehaut, while returned to Camelot with her husband. The Lady of the Lake also sent a shield to Guinevere. The magic shield depicted a knight and a lady kissing, but the shield was split down the middle, preventing the knight and lady from actually touching one another. The Queen was told once she consummates her relationship with her lover, would the split shield become whole.
Once Gawain had fully recovered from his wounds, he set out on the same quest he had postponed because of the war against Galehaut — to find the White or Red Knight Lancelot who was at the two previous encounters. Guinevere told Gawain, he might find him with Galehaut. Lancelot separation from Guinevere had made the young hero depressed and pensive. Not even Galehaut could comfort him.
After some weeks, Galehaut sent Lionel as a messenger to Guinevere, with the some news that might comfort or cheer up Lancelot. Gawain went through various adventures, where he met a young knight named Hector and later Lionel.
Lancelot was upset that he had fought with Gawain. Gawain knew that he was the knight he had been looking for. Reluctantly, Lancelot told Gawain his name. At this time news arrived that the Saxons and Irishmen had invaded Scotland. Arthur had sent his army to Scotland to defend his empire. Arthur was in love with the Saxon witch, and met her in her chamber of the castle. Arthur was captured by the Saxon knights and imprisoned. The shield given to the queen was made whole, which made Guinevere very happy.
But news arrived that the Saxons were holding the king as prisoner. A damsel arrived before the presence of the four companions, telling them she knew how to help them free Arthur.
However, she brought them into a trap where Lancelot, Gawain, Galehaut and Hector were thrown into prison. Only Lancelot was released from prison when he lost his mind.
Lancelot hurt friends and enemies alike. His sanity only returned when he put on the magic shield given to Guinevere. But the moment he took off the shield his madness return. Only the arrival of the Lady of the Lake cured his madness. When Lancelot returned to the battle, the tide of the battle returned to Briton forces. Lancelot managed to return to the castle, and released Arthur and his companions from prison. Lancelot captured the Saxon witch and forced her to make her army surrender.
After the battle, Gawain informed Arthur that he had completed his quest, and had found the White or Red Knight. Gawain told the king that he was one who released him from prison and his name was Lancelot.
Overcome with joy, Arthur unsuccessfully tried to persuade Lancelot to become member of his household and join the Round Table. So Arthur asked his wife to beg him to stay with them. Lancelot decided to stay because the Queen had asked him to. Galehaut was upset, but decided to stay with Arthur and become member of the Round Table. However, Galehaut could not stay at Camelot, indefinitely, since he had an empire to rule. While Lancelot was staying with his friend Galehaut in Sorelois, the second Guinevere plotted with Bertholai, a knight of Camelide, to convince Arthur that she was his real wife.
The False Guinevere says in her letter that if the king would not take her back as wife, Arthur must return the Round Table to her.
The ring that the False Guinevere had was identical to that of the Queen. Arthur set Boxing Day December 26 to prove which was his real wife and which was the impostor. Twenty barons from Camelide were part of the conspiracy. One day, Bertholai captured Arthur in the forest. They gave Arthur love potion so that he would fall in love with the False Guinevere. Arthur did whatever Bertholai and the False Guinevere say. Arthur declared his real wife as an impostor, and wanted to have her executed.
Since she had worn the crown she needed to die by fire. The knights of the Round Table, particularly Gawain, were shocked at the accusation and verdict. Gawain and the knights opposed Arthur and the conspirators; they rather that they be banish than allow the queen to be exiled or put to death.
Lancelot immediately set out to rescue the queen, accompanied by Galehaut and his army. When the day arrived that Guinevere was to be executed, Lancelot challenged the barons of Camelide in the force of arms. Bertholai had it set that Lancelot would have to fight three opponents instead of one.
Bertholai had the three strongest knights from Camelide to fight this unfair duel. Arthur and Galehaut opposed to this arrangement, but Lancelot refused to back down from combat.
Lancelot renounced his allegiance to Arthur and his seat at the Round Table. Lancelot fought three knights, killing two and wounding the third knight. Though, Lancelot had won the combat, Arthur refused to take the real Guinevere back.
Arthur was still under the spell of the False Guinevere. To solve this crisis and to protect the queen, Galehaut offer his kingdom as a safe haven for Guinevere. So Lancelot and Guinevere stayed in Sorelois, where they can continue their relation with one another, without Arthur discovering it. Arthur refused to give up the False Guinevere. The interdict was imposed immediately upon Arthur. Ten months later, the False Guinevere and Bertholai fell mysteriously ill, robbing them ability to move.
The two main conspirators realised that God was punishing them for the plot to remove the real queen. They also confessed to Arthur of their deception. Lancelot and Guinevere were happy of this outcome with conspirators but were saddened that they would have to part company. At first Guinevere pretended that she would not return to Arthur since he was ready to execute her.
Arthur had to reconcile with Guinevere, Lancelot and Galehaut. Arthur had to plea with Lancelot to retake his seat at the Round Table. Once Arthur and Guinevere were reconciled, the queen gave a full kiss to Lancelot in public for his service to her. She considered Lancelot as her personal champion, which Arthur whole-heartedly approved. Gawain was then imprisoned in the vermin-infested dungeon of Dolorous Tower. His wounds festered and Gawain health deteriorated after a few days. To add to his torment, the vermin would bite him in his dark cell.
There was a damsel, who lived in Dolorous Tower and was cousin to the Lady of White Castle and to Galeshin nephew of Arthur ; she decided to help Gawain. Caradoc had also abducted her, because of her great beauty. Caradoc wanted to force her to marry him. Then each night she would secretly send food and clean water to Gawain.
The three knights immediately set out on a quest to rescue Gawain. Before any knight can proceed to Dolorous Tower, the knight must walk through a church and open the door on the other side, while staffs wielded by invisible hands beat him. Whoever succeeded this test, would be the hero who would save Gawain. Galeshin failed the test. Lancelot and Yvain arrived a day later, and were similarly tested in the church. Yvain failed, but Lancelot succeeded in opening the door.
The valley belonged to Morgan le Fay , half-sister of King Arthur. Guinevere banished her cousin to prevent a scandal. Only a knight who had been faithful to his true love could end the enchantment on the valley and release the trapped knights.
Galeshin was the first to enter the valley and was captured. Yvain also entered the valley and he was also trapped. Lancelot entered the valley, where he killed four dragons. Lancelot then crossed the narrow plank that was defended by two knights.
Morgan was rudely wakened, when she fell of her bed, she was sleeping in. Lancelot apologised for having waking the angry Morgan. Morgan became even more upset to learn that Lancelot had broken the enchantment on her valley.
She had no choice but to release all the prisoners, including her faithless lover. Galeshin and Yvain were set free. Morgan told the hero he would die in prison. Morgan reminded the hero that he had yet to save Gawain from Caradoc. Morgan told the hero, she would allow him to rescue Gawain, only if he promised to return to her as her prisoner. Lancelot agreed. Lancelot continued on his journey and found two bodies floating in the river.
Lancelot was told that the hero, who removed the bodies from the water, would achieve the Dolorous Tower. Lancelot immediately jumped into the water and lifted the bodies out of the water.
Galeshin and Yvain had arrived at Dolorous Tower before Lancelot. Yvain enter the front gate and was captured by ten knights. Galeshin used the other gate. Galeshin defeated one knight at the first gate, two at the second gate. However three knights overcame him at the third gate. Yvain and Galeshin were held in prison. Meanwhile, Caradoc heard that Arthur was leading his knights to take Dolorous Tower.
Caradoc sent his own men to confront Arthur, and prevent them entering his domain. Lancelot then arrived at Dolorous Tower and fought against Caradoc. Though they fought long and hard, Lancelot proved to be too strong and skilled for Caradoc. Caradoc realising he was about to lose, broke off the fighting, and ran towards his tower.
Caradoc hoped to kill Gawain before Lancelot could release his friend. However, the damsel who had helped Gawain, she now helped Lancelot, by closing and locking the gate. Lancelot killed Caradoc and then released Gawain and the other prisoners. Lancelot then left his friends, returning to Morgan as prisoner.
Once again, Lancelot refused to give his ring to her. Morgan then sent one of her damsels with the ring and message to Arthur and Guinevere. Guinevere replied that she had loved Lancelot only because the hero had saved her and her husband, and because Lancelot had also helped Arthur to win two wars. After staying with her for a while, Morgan became attracted to Lancelot, wanted to marry the knight.
Realising that Lancelot was still faithful to Guinevere, she released Lancelot. Lancelot returned to Sorelois, hoping to find Galehaut. Lancelot was more than disappointed when he found that his friend was absent; he became very depressed. After a few nights, Lancelot fled into the wood, without his armour and weapon. Apparently he was driven into insanity, because he missed Guinevere. The vavasour gave the shield to Galehaut, after Galehaut was wounded in the fighting.
Galehaut return to his kingdom with Lionel, only to find that his friend had lost his mind and left his kingdom. Thinking that Lancelot had killed himself, Galehaut became inconsolable and fell ill during fasting and died ten days later. This section of Lancelot was called the Charrette. Many of the scenes and incidences in the Charrette followed the original tale by Chretien. Also, in the beginning of the Charrette , Meleagant explained why he had abducted Guinevere was due to his jealous rivalry with Lancelot.
Sir Thomas Malory had his own version of the Charrette. He is also allied with Gilgamesh , King of Heroes. He possesses a strong hatred towards Vlad III, and King Arthur, who he blames for the downfall of Camelot and the death of Guinevere, as well as the destruction of his own town, Subterrania, which is where he and Gawain fled. Lancelot is of the Berserker class, and is the leader of the fallen town of Subterrania, and is the leader of a dismantled nation.
He fought until the very end of the Battle for Subterrania for his town, until Gilgamesh offered that the mad dog and his followers live in Uruk until Arthur was brought to his knees. Lancelot is skilled in fighting and exploring large distances, as well as horseback riding. He is also the head navigator for his town. A B ranked Phantasm, this is the sword of Lancelot.
It is a magical sword that can pierce even the toughest of armors. It doesn't usually appear in battle, due to the fact that it is easily identifiable and Lancelot's True Name can be revealed. Lancelot possesses a strong set of armor, enabling him to take quite a few hits before he has to back off, even from other Noble Phantasms, such as Excalibur.
Because of the fog that is emitted from the armor, it is impossible to read the stats and effects it gives Lancelot. It is under the "Mad Enchantment" category. This Noble Phantasm is not a physical item, but rather a skill that Lancelot possesses.
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