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King Arthur
Arthurus la
Legendary British leader of the late 5th and early 6th centuries
- Child of Uther Pendragon and Igraine
- Consort of Guinevere
- Traditionally 5th century CE – 6th century CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Offices held 1
Family
The family of King Arthur
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 11
Kinship in an account 11
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Igraine mother of King Arthur in Arthurian legend -
child of (child) Uther Pendragon father of King Arthur in Arthurian legend - parent of (child) Amhar
- parent of (child) Llacheu son of Arthur
- parent of (child) Lohot character
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parent of (father) Mordred character in Arthurian legend -
partner of (spouse) Guinevere character in Arthurian legend - sibling of (half) Élaine sister of King Arthur
- sibling of Madoc ap Uthyr legendary figure, son of Uther Pendragon, father of Eliwlod and brother of King Arthur
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sibling of (half) Morgan le Fay enchantress in Arthurian legend -
sibling of (half) Morgause character in later Arthurian traditions
Texts
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
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Written 1136 CEThe History of the Kings of Britain
pseudohistorical account of British history (c.1136) -
Written 1485 CELe Morte d'Arthur
1485 reworking of existing tales about King Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory -
Written c. 1203 CEIwein
Middle High German Arthurian romance by Hartmann von Aue
Also in films, games and series: Camelot, Excalibur, Unidentified Flying Oddball
Sources
Sources and evidence
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19 statements on this record
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- 13 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
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