Gaheris is a figure of Arthurian legend, a knight of the Round Table, and a son of Morgause and King Lot of Orkney and Lothian. His brothers are Gawain, Agravaine, Gareth and Mordred, a half-brother. His mother is a daughter of Gorlois and Igraine, and a sister of Elaine and Morgan le Fay. She is also an older maternal half-sister of King Arthur. The Matter of Britain is a name given collectively to the legends that concern the Celtic and legendary history of the British Isles, centering around King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. ... In the legend of King Arthur, the Round Table was a mystical table in Camelot around which King Arthur and his knights sat to discuss matters crucial to the security of the realm. ... In Arthurian legend, Morgause or Morgase (also known as Anna-Morgause or Ann-Morgause) is the half-sister of King Arthur who slept with him and produced Mordred, the incestuous heir that would lead to Camelots downfall. ... Lot in Arthurian Legend was the king of Lothian, Orkney, and Norway which leads to his name which essentially means King of Lothian. He is the father of most popularly Gawain, Gareth, and in Welsh tradition, Mordred. ... Location Geography Area Ranked 16th  - Total 990 km²  - % Water  ? Admin HQ Kirkwall ISO 3166-2 GB-ORK ONS code 00RA Demographics Population Ranked 32nd  - Total (2005) 19,590  - Density 20 / km² Politics Orkney Islands Council http://www. ... Lothian (Lowden in Scots, Lodainn in Gaelic) forms a traditional region of Scotland, lying between the southern shore of the Firth of Forth and the Lammermuir Hills. ... Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Gawain (Gwalchmei, Gawan, Gauvain, Walewein etc. ... Sir Agravain or Sir Agravaine was a knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend. ... Sir Gareth was a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian Legend. ... Mordred or Modred (Welsh: Medraut) is a legendary figure of Britain, known in Arthurian legend as a notorious traitor who fought King Arthur at the Battle of Camlann, where he was killed and Arthur fatally wounded. ... In the legendary tales of King Arthur, Gorlois was the Duke of Cornwall and married to the beautiful Ygerna (Igraine or Ygraine). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Elaine (a form of Helen) is a name shared by several different characters in Arthurian Legend. ... Morgan le Fay, by Anthony Frederick Sandys (1829 - 1904), 1864 (Birmingham Art Gallery): A spell-brewing Morgaine distinctly of Tennysons generation Morgan le Fay, alternatively known as Morgaine, Morgain, Morgana and other variants, is a powerful sorceress and sometime antagonist of King Arthur and Guinevere in the Arthurian legend. ... A bronze Arthur in plate armour with visor raised and with jousting shield wearing Kastenbrust armour (early 15th century) by Peter Vischer, typical of later anachronistic depictions of Arthur. ...

In Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, Gaheris is squire to his elder brother Gawain before being knighted himself, and helped moderate Gawain's fiery temper. He participates in the murders of King Pellinore, his father's slayer, and Sir Lamorak, Pellinore's son and the lover of Gaheris' mother. More notorious is his murder of his own mother, Morgause, after catching her in flagrante delicto with the youthful and handsome Lamorak. Gaheris beheads his mother but Lamorak escapes, to be hunted down by all the brothers except Gareth, and Mordred stabs him in the back. Since in Malory Lamorak is greater than any knight except Lancelot and Tristram, this act of revenge is deemed cowardly and a blot on the Orkney brothers' honour. When Arthur and the brothers discover Gaheris is Morgause' slayer, he is ejected from court. Sir Thomas Malory (c. ... The Last Sleep of Arthur by Edward Burne-Jones Le Morte dArthur (spelt Le Morte Darthur in the first printing and also in some modern editions, Middle French for la mort dArthur, the death of Arthur) is Sir Thomas Malorys compilation of some French and English Arthurian... King Pellinore is the king of Listenoise or of the Isles (possibly Anglesey, or perhaps the medieval kingdom of the same name), according to the Arthurian legend. ... Sir Lamorak was the son of King Pellinore and the brother of Sir Tor, Sir Aglovale, Sir Dornar, Sir Percival, and Dindrane. ... In flagrante delicto or sometimes simply in flagrante (Latin: while [the crime] is blazing) is a legal term used to indicate that a criminal has been caught in the act of committing an offense (compare corpus delicti). ... For other uses, see Lancelot (disambiguation). ... Tristan and Iseult as depicted by Herbert Draper (1864 -1920). ...

Gaheris is killed accidentally by Lancelot during the rescue of Guinevere. Gaheris will have nothing to do with Agravain and Mordred's plot to entrap Lancelot and Guinevere, and when Arthur asks the brothers to help guard the Queen's execution, Gaheris and Gareth reluctantly agree, though Gawain refuses. They decline to wear armor, and Lancelot, unable to distinguish friend from foe in his blind wrath, cuts down the unarmored princes. Gawain's fury at this outrage is terrible and the resulting feud largely destroys the Round Table. Queen Guinevere, by William Morris Guinevere was the legendary queen consort of King Arthur. ...

Gaheris is often little more than a supporting character to his brothers Gawain and Gareth, with the murder of Morgause an odd exception, leading modern authors such as T. H. White to give the act to Agravaine instead. He even marries the sister of Gareth's wife Lyonors, the haughty damsel Lynette. It is likely Gaheris and Gareth were the same character in origin, as their names in French sources, Guerrehes (Gaheris, usually) and Gaheriet (Gareth, usually), are easy to confuse and adventures ascribed to the brothers are often interchangeable. Furthermore, only one brother is ever named for Gwalchmai ap Gwyar, the character from Welsh mythology traditionally identified with Gawain. This character, Gwalchafed, is a likely source for Gaheris and Gareth if Gawain did indeed derive from Gwalchmai. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Gawain (Gwalchmei, Gawan, Gauvain, Walewein etc. ... Sir Gareth was a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian Legend. ... Terence Hanbury White (May 29, 1906 – January 17, 1964) was an English writer, born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. ... Sir Agravain or Sir Agravaine was a knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend. ... Welsh mythology, the remnants of the mythology of the pre-Christian Britons, has come down to us in much altered form in medieval Welsh manuscripts such as the Red Book of Hergest, the White Book of Rhydderch, the Book of Aneirin and the Book of Taliesin. ...

Gaheris in Popular Culture

• Gaheris Rhade is a fictional character in the television series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda.
• Gaheris is also a fictional character in Neil Gaiman's Sandman (Vertigo) serious and is featured in the VIII volume of the The Sandman Library Collection entitled Worlds End.