Morgause
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Morgause ( ) is a popular name of a legendary queen and member of King Arthur's family in the Matter of Britain literature, where she is always a queen and usually Arthur's sibling. However, her name varies between texts and traditions, including Anna, Gwyar, or simply as the Queen of Orkney, as does the issue of her children, other than commonly Gawain. In most cases, she is the wife or widow of Lot, ruling over a northern realm such as Orkney, Lothian, Scotland, or Norway. She often has sisters, notably Morgan, with whom she is being sometimes conflated into a single character by modern auth
Key facts
- Character.series
- Le Morte d'Arthur
- Character.creator
- Thomas Malory (based on anonymous French prose cycles)
- Character.image
- Gareth and Queen Bellicent.jpg
- Character.caption
- Young Gareth appealing to his mother Queen Bellicent (i.e. Morgause) to let him go serve King Arthur in Tales from Tennyson, 1902 (adapted from Malory)
- Character.based_on
- Anna, Gwyar, and other precedent characters from earlier versions of the Arthurian legend
- Character.title
- Queen of Orkney
- Character.occupation
- Princess, queen
- Character.family
- Igraine and Gorlois (parents), Arthur, Morgan le Fay, Elaine (siblings)
- Character.spouse
- Lot
- Character.significant_other
- Arthur, Lamorak
- Character.children
- Gawain, Agravain, Gaheris, Gareth, Mordred
- Character.relatives
- King Arthur's family
- Character.origin
- Tintagel Castle
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Gareth and Queen Bellicent.jpg
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- Morgause
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15 sectionsContents
- Earlier characters
- Chronicles
- Welsh accounts
- Early chivalric romances
- ''Merlin''-inspired tradition
- ''Le Morte d'Arthur''
- Modern culture
- Literature
- Other media
- See also
- Notes
- Further reading
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Morgause ( ) is a popular name of a legendary queen and member of King Arthur's family in the Matter of Britain literature, where she is always a queen and usually Arthur's sibling. However, her name varies between texts and traditions, including Anna, Gwyar, or simply as the Queen of Orkney, as does the issue of her children, other than commonly Gawain. In most cases, she is the wife or widow of Lot, ruling over a northern realm such as Orkney, Lothian, Scotland, or Norway. She often has sisters, notably Morgan, with whom she is being sometimes conflated into a single character by modern authors.
In medieval chronicles and Arthurian romances based on or inspired by Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, as well as in the Welsh tradition, she is typically depicted as the daughter of Igraine, either the daughter or step-daughter of Uther Pendragon, and the full sister or half-sister of Arthur. Occasionally, she may be Uther's sister and Arthur's aunt. Her other children often, but not always, include Mordred.