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Encyclopedia > Knight of the Round Table

The Knights of the Round Table were those men awarded the highest Order of Chivalry at the Court of King Arthur.The following have been named as Knights of the Round Table:

The legend of King Arthur is probably best known from Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, but other chroniclers of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table include Chrétien de Troyes, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Robert de Boron.


Sir Thomas Malory describes the Knights' code of chivalry as:

  • To never do outrage nor murder
  • Always to flee treason
  • To by no means be cruel but to give mercy unto him who asks for mercy
  • To always do ladies, gentlewomen and widows succor
  • To never force ladies, gentlewomen or widows
  • Not to take up battles in wrongful quarrels for love or worldly goods

The Winchester Round Table, which dates from the 1270s, lists 25 names of knights including the 22 listed above.


Knights of the Round Table was also a 1953 movie based on the Arthurian legend.


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Knights of the Round Table - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (469 words)
The Knights of the Round Table were those men awarded the highest order of Chivalry at the Court of King Arthur in the literary cycle the Matter of Britain.
The table at which they met was created to have no head or foot, representing the equality of all the members.
Knights of the Round Table was also a 1953 movie based on the Arthurian legend.
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