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[thetudorslovers]

"Leodogran, the King of Cameliard,

Had one fair daughter, and none other child;

And she was fairest of all flesh on earth,

Guinevere, and in her his one delight."

Guinevere is, in Arthurian legend, the wife of King Arthur. In medieval romances, one of the most prominent story arcs is Queen Guinevere’s tragic love affair with her husband’s chief knight, Lancelot. This story first appeared in Chrétien de Troyes’s Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart and became a motif in Arthurian literature, starting with the Lancelot-Grail of the early 13th century and carrying through the Post-Vulgate Cycle and Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d'Arthur. Guinevere and Lancelot’s betrayal of Arthur preceded his eventual defeat at the Battle of Camlann by Mordred. Guinevere has been portrayed as everything from a weak and opportunistic traitor to a fatally flawed but noble and virtuous gentlewoman. In Chrétien de Troyes’s Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, she is praised for her intelligence, friendliness, and gentility, while in Marie de France’s Lanval (and Thomas Chestre’s Middle English version, Sir Launfal), she is a vindictive adulteress, disliked by the protagonist and all well-bred knights. Early chronicles tend to portray her inauspiciously or hardly at all, while later authors use her good and bad qualities to construct a deeper character who played a larger role. 

[thetudorslovers]

🌹 𝔖𝔦𝔯 𝔏𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢𝔩𝔬𝔱 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔔𝔲𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔊𝔲𝔦𝔫𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔢 🌸💐

"ᴬˢ ˢʰᵉ ᶠˡᵉᵈ ᶠᵃˢᵗ ᵗʰʳᵒ' ˢᵘⁿ ᵃⁿᵈ ˢʰᵃᵈᵉ,

ᵀʰᵉ ʰᵃᵖᵖʸ ʷⁱⁿᵈˢ ᵘᵖᵒⁿ ʰᵉʳ ᵖˡᵃʸ'ᵈ,

ᴮˡᵒʷⁱⁿᵍ ᵗʰᵉ ʳⁱⁿᵍˡᵉᵗ ᶠʳᵒᵐ ᵗʰᵉ ᵇʳᵃⁱᵈ.

ˢʰᵉ ˡᵒᵒᵏ'ᵈ ˢᵒ ˡᵒᵛᵉˡʸ, ᵃˢ ˢʰᵉ ˢʷᵃʸ'ᵈ ᵀʰᵉ ʳᵉⁱⁿ ʷⁱᵗʰ ᵈᵃⁱⁿᵗʸ ᶠⁱⁿᵍᵉʳ⁻ᵗⁱᵖˢ,

ᴬ ᵐᵃⁿ ʰᵃᵈ ᵍⁱᵛᵉⁿ ᵃˡˡ ᵒᵗʰᵉʳ ᵇˡⁱˢˢ,

ᴬⁿᵈ ᵃˡˡ ʰⁱˢ ʷᵒʳˡᵈˡʸ ʷᵒʳᵗʰ ᶠᵒʳ ᵗʰⁱˢ,

ᵀᵒ ʷᵃˢᵗᵉ ʰⁱˢ ʷʰᵒˡᵉ ʰᵉᵃʳᵗ ⁱⁿ ᵒⁿᵉ ᵏⁱˢˢ ᵁᵖᵒⁿ ʰᵉʳ ᵖᵉʳᶠᵉᶜᵗ ˡⁱᵖˢ."

-Alfred Lord Tennyson