Igraine
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In the Matter of Britain, Igraine () is the mother of King Arthur. Igraine is also known in Latin as Igerna, in Welsh as Eigr (Middle Welsh Eigyr), in French as Ygraine (Old French Ygerne or Igerne), in ''Le Morte d'Arthur as Ygrayne—often modernised as Igraine or Igreine—and in Parzival'' as Arnive. She becomes the wife of Uther Pendragon after the death of her first husband, Gorlois.
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- Character.name
- Igraine
- Character.series
- Matter of Britain
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- Uther and Igraine.jpg
- Character.caption
- King Uther and Igraine after Gorlois's death, from Uther and Igraine by Warwick Deeping, illustration by Władysław T. Benda, 1903
- Character.first
- Historia Regum Britanniae
- Character.creator
- Geoffrey of Monmouth
- Character.occupation
- Duchess, queen
- Character.spouse
- Gorlois, Uther Pendragon
- Character.children
- Elaine, Morgan, Morgause (with Gorlois), Arthur (with Uther)
- Character.family
- King Arthur's family
- Character.nationality
- Briton
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In the Matter of Britain, Igraine () is the mother of King Arthur. Igraine is also known in Latin as Igerna, in Welsh as Eigr (Middle Welsh Eigyr), in French as Ygraine (Old French Ygerne or Igerne), in ''Le Morte d'Arthur as Ygrayne—often modernised as Igraine or Igreine—and in Parzival'' as Arnive. She becomes the wife of Uther Pendragon after the death of her first husband, Gorlois.
== Legend == In Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, Igerna enters the story as the wife of Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall. In Thomas Malory's ''Le Morte d'Arthur'', her daughters by Gorlois are Elaine, Morgause and Morgan le Fay. In other works, the names, roles and even number of Arthur's half-sisters vary depending on the text (including in the Historia, in which Arthur has only a younger sister). In the Brut Tysilio, Cador of Cornwall is their son. John Hardyng's Chronicle calls Cador Arthur's brother "of his mother's syde".