Guinevere, often written in Modern English as Guenevere or Guenever, was, according to Arthurian legend, an early-medieval queen of Great Britain and the wife of King Arthur.
21 Facts About Guinevere
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The earliest datable appearance of Guinevere is in Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudo-historical British chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae, in which she is seduced by Mordred during his ill-fated rebellion against Arthur.
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Guinevere has continued to be a popular character featured in numerous adaptations of the legend since the 19th-century Arthurian revival.
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Guinevere's name is invariably Ginover in the Middle German romances by Hartmann von Aue and Ulrich von Zatzikhoven but was written Jenover by Der Pleier, and the audience of Italian romances got to know her as Ginevra.
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Besides the issue of her biological children, or lack thereof, Guinevere raises the illegitimate daughter of Sagramore and Senehaut in the Livre d'Artus.
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One of such cousins is Guiomar, an early lover of Morgan le Fay in several French romances; other cousins of Guinevere include her confidante Elyzabel and Morgan's knight Carrant.
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The earliest datable mention of Guinevere is in Geoffrey's Historia, written c 1136.
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Guinevere ends up punished when she is magically blinded by his secret true love from Avalon, the fairy princess Lady Tryamour.
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Guinevere herself wields magical powers in The Rise of Gawain, Nephew of Arthur.
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The Alliterative Morte Arthure has Guinevere commit the greatest treason by giving Arthur's sword kept in her possession to her lover Mordred in other to be used against her husband.
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In Perlesvaus, it is Kay's murder of Loholt that causes Guinevere to die of anguish and she is then buried in Avalon with her son's severed head.
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Historically, the bones of Guinevere were claimed to have been found buried alongside those of Arthur during the exhumation of their purported graves by the monks of Glastonbury Abbey in 1091.
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In Diu Crone, Guinevere's captor is her own brother Gotegrim, intending to kill her for refusing to marry the fairy knight Gasozein who claims to be her rightful husband, and her saviour is Gawain.
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In Durmart le Gallois, Guinevere is delivered from her peril by the eponymous hero.
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Guinevere is said to have been abducted by King Modred.
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One Scotland-related story takes place in Hector Boece's Historia Gentis Scotorum, where Guinevere is taken by the Picts following Mordred's and Arthur's deaths at Camlann and spends the rest of her life in their captivity; after her death she is buried beside Arthur.
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Medievalist Roger Sherman Loomis suggested that this recurring motif shows that Guinevere "had inherited the role of a Celtic Persephone".
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The teenage Lancelot first joins the Queen's Knights to serve Guinevere after having been knighted by her.
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On her side, Guinevere is often greatly jealous for Lancelot, especially in the case of Elaine of Corbenic, when her reaction to learning about their relationship causes Lancelot to fall into his longest period of madness.
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Guinevere meets Lancelot one last time, refusing to kiss him, then returns to the convent.
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Guinevere spends the remainder of her life as an abbess in joyless sorrow contrasting with her earlier merry nature.