1. Pelleas becomes the husband of Nimue, the Lady of the Lake in Le Morte d'Arthur.
10 Facts About Pelleas
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Pelleas convinces Arcade to love Pellias and arranges for them to meet.
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Nimue, one of the Ladies of the Lake, comes upon Pelleas, hears his story, and falls in love with him herself.
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Pelleas takes vengeance on Ettarde by magic, enchanting her to fall in love with Pelleas as deeply as he loved her.
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Pelleas appears as a minor character at other points in both of these works.
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Pelleas is active fighting in tournaments and defending Guinevere from her abductor Maleagant as one of the Queen's Knights.
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In Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Pelleas is knighted by Arthur at a young age.
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Ettarre, selfish and having gained the circlet and thus some social elevation, desires to be left alone; but despite her treachery Pelleas cannot forget her.
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Gawain instead lies to her, telling her he has slain Pelleas, and betrays him, sleeping with her himself.
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Pelleas finds the two together sleeping, and leaves his sword on their chests, revealing that he is alive and well, but as a sign of honour, as he says he cannot kill a knight such as Gawain in his sleep.