11 Facts About Caradoc

Caradoc is remembered in the Matter of Britain as a Knight of the Round Table, under the names King Carados and Carados Briefbras.

Caradoc appears in the Welsh Triads, where he is described as Arthur's chief elder at Celliwig in Cornwall and one of the three knights of the island of Britain; his horse is named as Lluagor.

Caradoc is eventually reconciled with the young king and became one of his most trusted allies.

Caradoc appears frequently in Arthurian literature, even starring in his own minor romance, the Life of Caradoc included in the First Continuation of Chretien de Troyes's Perceval, the Story of the Grail.

Eliavres casts a spell over Caradoc to make him mistake various farm animals for his wife, while the wizard is busy fathering a son.

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Caradoc takes up the challenge, and dutifully offers his own neck when the sorcerer magically replaces his head.

Caradoc embarks on a number of knightly adventures, whereupon he meets his best friend Sir Cador, travelling with his sister Guinier.

Caradoc will sit in a tub of vinegar while Guinier sits in a vat of milk with her supple breasts exposed.

Guinier and Caradoc are married, and after a fidelity test involving a drinking horn, they live happily ever after.

Several versions of the Mantle of Chastity test involving Caradoc's wife were translated into Norse during the reign of King Hakon Hakonarson, and a version of the chastity test from The Book of Caradoc in the First Continuation of the Old French Perceval is found in the Norse Mottuls saga.

The chastity test involving the drinking horn was narrated in the Lai du Cor by the jongleur Robert Biket, who claimed Cirencester was awarded to Caradoc for winning the drinking horn through the fidelity of his wife, and that the horn was on display there.