#blanchandin

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

If you were after more details on the angel who transes your gender, @crazy-pages - there's three different stories where that happens (as a way to maintain the status quo of man + woman). I'm copy/pasting this from another post so the format's a little weird 😅

(also, sorry about the gendered language. Trying to balance between how medieval people understood things and how we do is hard without changing the meaning of the original texts too much AND without getting super wordy)

Yde et Olive (15th Cent) - to avoid being married to their own father, Yde disguises themselves as a man and becomes a knight. They end up in Rome, where the king marries them to their daughter, Olive. After a couple of weeks, Yde tells Olive about their "true gender", but the conversation is overheard. The King demands Yde bathe with him to prove they are a man. An angel intervenes and transforms Yde into a man.

Iphis and Ianthe (Greek/Roman myth, but also in Ovid's Metamorphois, which first came to England in the 15th Cent) - Telethusa is due to give birth, but her husband tells her that if the baby is a girl he'll have it killed. When she gives birth to a girl, she names them Iphis and disguises them as a boy. Eventually, Iphis is engaged to Ianthe. (Incidentally, this is also a really early example of same-sex romance, as Iphis struggles with their love for Ianthe "as a woman"). Before the wedding, Iphis and Telethusa pray at the temple of Isis, who transforms Iphis into a man.

Tristan de Nanteuil (11th/12th Cent) - from the Chanson de geste, after his alleged death, Tristan's wife, Blanchandin/e, disguises themself as a Knight. Clarinde, a sultan's daughter, falls in love with them. Blanchandin manages to hide their "true sex", but when Clarinde demands they bathe with her to prove they are a man they flee into the woods. There, they meet an angel who asks if they want to be transformed into a man. Blanchandin accepts and he is turned into a man for the rest of the poem. (Incidentally the angel gives him a giant cock. Yes, the text specifies this).

the great thing about medieval literature is that it returns us to a time when men were men and women were women, *insert gritty realism gif here*, featuring such important and eternal gendered characteristics such as

(M) Why Would I Learn To Think Critically When I Could Find a Random Damsel In The Woods To Tell Me What To Do

(F) Demands To Be Brought The Heads Of Her Enemies

(M, to F) Be Mean To Me, No, Meaner Than That

(F) Meticulous Maintenance Of Social Connections And Alliances Via Writing Letters

(M) Crying

(M) More Crying

(M) Even More Crying, While Being Held Tenderly By Brother In Arms

(F) Necromancy

(M) Meticulous Maintenance Of Social Connections And Alliances Via Mistaking Friend’s Identity, Attacking Him, Then Kissing And Making Up

(F) Expert Medical Practitioner

(M) Self-Care By Episodes Of Madness In The Woods

(F) Owner Of Haunted Castle

[itonje]

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[blackmetalbats]

ok i have more than 1 note i can go

if you were to ask me which knights can be interpreted as gay (in the medieval materials, im not considering any readaptation after the 1300s) i would say GALEHAUT!!!

Galehaut is in love with Lancelot. he is canonically in love with him in the Vulgate cycle, and their story is actually very sweet. he is plagued by strange dreams, and the clerics discover that one of the three illnesses has insinuated into his heart: the "sickness of love", which is fatal. he knows he doesnt have too much time left.

when his castle ruins, Galehaut tells Lancelot that he doesnt care too much for it, as long as he's around him. he sticks by his side, and even helps him out in his adulterous love affair with the queen Gueneviere. Galehaut is brefly engaged with the lady of Malehaut, but shortly after he sends her a messanger to say that he releases her from any obligations because he is going to stick with Lancelot in his adventures.

Galehaut's feelings for Lancelot are not defined as sexual, but it's defined as "companionship".

at the end of the second section of the Lancelot du Lac, Galehaut is wounded, in the desperate search of Lancelot (who is thought by everyone to be dead at this point) and his wound gets infected. not being able to find him at the Joyous Guard, Galehaut stops eating and drinking, thinking that Lancelot is dead (he sees his blood there, that the reader knows it was just a nosebleed). he dies of a broken heart.

Lancelot will eventually find his tomb and despair to the point he almost kills himself. but then he carries Galehaut's body to the Joyous Guard and buries him there. many years later, Lancelot will also be buried there, in the same tomb.

here are some resources if you want to read more in depth about queer themes in these medieval narratives, ive just done a superficial exposition because theres so! much! material!

A kiss is just a kiss: Heterosexuality and its consolations in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Reading affective companionship in the prose Lancelot

if you can read french this is another interesting read

Travestities et transexuelles: Ide, Silence, Grisandole, Blanchandine

also

ill also be watching some media around this becuase it is consuming my brain, if you guys are interested i could give my opinions on like cinematic adaptations of this material????

guys. guys. do ya'll want me to talk about king arthur and such,,,, perchance. or tell you which knights were gay. pleaaaasssse

[itonje]

we know that tristan and blanchandine explored each others bodies but do we ever ask ourselves if tristan and blanchandin explored each other's bodies?

[itonje]

im obsessed with blanchandin's lament over the fact he cant be tristan's lover anymore after miraculously transitioning because 'god certainly does not wish that a man should ever have another man *in this moral life*' with the last bit sort of reading like when you get into heaven or something, you can do that