Bors is the name of two knights in Arthurian legend, an elder and a younger.
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15 Facts About Bors
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Bors marries Evaine, the sister of Ban's wife Elaine, and has two sons, Bors the Younger and Lionel.
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Ban and Bors become Arthur's early allies in his fight against eleven rebel kings in Britain, including Lot, Urien, and Caradoc, In return, Arthur vows to help them against their Frankish enemy, King Claudas, who has been threatening their lands back in the continent.
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Ban's son Lancelot is taken by the Lady of the Lake, but Bors' children are raised in captivity by Claudas' retainers.
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Bors is recognisable by a distinctive scar on his forehead, and participates in most of the King's conflicts, including the eventual battle with Claudas that liberates his father's lands.
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Sir Bors is always portrayed as one of the Round Table's finest, but his real glory comes on the Grail Quest, where he proves himself worthy enough to witness the Grail's mysteries alongside Galahad and Percival.
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Several episodes display his virtuous character; in one, a lady approaches Bors vowing to commit suicide unless he sleeps with her.
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Bors refuses to break his vow of celibacy; the lady and her maidens threaten to throw themselves off the castle battlements.
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Bors chooses to help the maiden, but prays for his brother's safety.
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In Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, based on the French prose romance tradition, Sir Bors reluctantly agrees to fight as Queen Guinevere's champion in a trial by combat after she is accused of poisoning a cousin of Sir Mador de la Porte.
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Bors is about to joust with Mador for her sake when Lancelot arrives to take his place incognito.
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Bors helps to rescue the Queen from her execution at the stake and is one of Lancelot's kinsmen who then accompany him into exile from England.
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Together with his brother Lionel, Bors becomes one of Lancelot's most valorous and trusted aides in the ensuing war, during which he barely survives his horseback duel with Arthur's second-in-command Gawain.
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Sir Bors sends most of the army home, and goes to look for Lancelot with a few other of their kinsmen.
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