23 Facts About Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in 1819, as one of the Waverley novels.

Ivanhoe became one of Scott's best-known and most influential novels.

Ivanhoe was credited with influencing contemporary popular perceptions of historical figures such as Richard the Lionheart, King John, and Robin Hood.

Ivanhoe is the story of one of the remaining Anglo-Saxon noble families at a time when the nobility in England was overwhelmingly Norman.

Protagonist Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disinherited by his father Cedric of Rotherwood for supporting the Norman King Richard and for falling in love with the Lady Rowena, a ward of Cedric and descendant of the Saxon Kings of England.

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Ivanhoe accompanies King Richard on the Third Crusade, where he is said to have played a notable role in the Siege of Acre; and tends to Louis of Thuringia, who suffers from malaria.

Ivanhoe is severely wounded in the competition yet his father does not move quickly to tend to him.

The Lady Rowena is saved by Cedric, while the still-wounded Ivanhoe is rescued from the burning castle by King Richard.

Ivanhoe, riding day and night, arrives in time for the trial by combat; however, both horse and man are exhausted, with little chance of victory.

Bois-Gilbert and Ivanhoe are both unhorsed by each other's lances in the first joust.

Ivanhoe arise quickly to finish the fight by sword Bois-Guilbert, a man trying to have it all without offering to marry Rebecca, dies from emotional turmoil and arises not.

Ivanhoe offers to protect Isaac from Bois-Guilbert, whom he has overheard giving instructions for his capture.

Ivanhoe instructs his attendant, Gurth in disguise, to convey money to Isaac to repay him for arranging the provision of his horse and armour.

Ivanhoe meets up with Gurth and they encounter Locksley who, after investigation, advises against a counter-attack, the captives not being in immediate danger.

Ivanhoe says she will give a signal when the time is ripe for storming the castle.

Ivanhoe maintains many of the elements of the Romance genre, including the quest, a chivalric setting, and the overthrowing of a corrupt social order to bring on a time of happiness.

Similarly, the Normans in Ivanhoe, who represent a more sophisticated culture, and the Saxons, who are poor, disenfranchised, and resentful of Norman rule, band together and begin to mould themselves into one people.

Ivanhoe is an alternate name for Ivinghoe first recorded in 1665.

The characters in Ivanhoe refer to Prince John and King Richard I as "Normans"; contemporary medieval documents from this period do not refer to either of these two rulers as Normans.

Ivanhoe borrowed it from the writings of the 16th-century chronicler John Mair or a 17th-century ballad presumably to make the plot of his novel more gripping.

Victor Sieg's dramatic cantata Ivanhoe won the Prix de Rome in 1864 and premiered in Paris the same year.

Ivanhoe was the grand opera by Arthur Sullivan and Julian Sturgis.

Portion of the Silver Lake neighborhood in Los Angeles was originally known as Ivanhoe, named by Hugo Reid, a Scottish immigrant for whom the rolling hills of the area reminded him of his home in Scotland.