Lancelot
Sir Lancelot was a character in the legend of King Arthur, and was a Knight of the Round Table. Sir Lancelot of the Lake was one of the most trusted knights of King Arthur's Round Table, but this soon changed when he fell in love with the king's wife, Queen Guinevere. He was raised by the Lady of the Lake, hence his title Lancelot Du Lac. Sir Lancelot was the only knight known to defeat King Arthur during a jousting match. He is also known briefly as the father of Sir Galahad, the greatest knight of all Camelot. He was a Red Cross Knight, which meant that he was one of the knights who was in the quest to find the Holy Grail.
Lancelot Media
324 The Romance of King Arthur
Lancelot fighting the two dragons guarding the entrance to Morgan's Val Without Return in an illumination of a 15th-century French Lancelot-Grail manuscript. The arms attributed to him: argent with three bendlets gules
The Earthly Paradise (Sir Lancelot at the Chapel of the Holy Grail) by Edward Burne-Jones (1890s)
Accolade (also known as Queen Guinevere and Sir Lancelot) by Edmund Blair Leighton (1901)
Sidney Paget's painting of Elaine of Astolat with the injured Lancelot in her care
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