Sir Sagramore is a Knight of the Round Table in the Arthurian legend. His characterization varies from story to story, though he is surprizingly prolific; he appears in a number of early stories, such as Chrétien de Troyes' works, and he turns up in all the cyclical versions. He gains a number of nicknames, including "The Impetuous." 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. ... For other uses, see Round Table (disambiguation). ... 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. ... Chrétien de Troyes wrote in Champagne, France, during the last half of the twelfth century. ...

Sagramore in the Lancelot-Grail

According to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, Sagramore is the son of the king of Hungary and the daughter of the Eastern Roman Emperor; he is even an heir to the throne of Constantinople. His father dies while he was still young, and his mother accepts the proposal of King Brandegoris of Estangore in Britain. When he is 15 Sagramore travels to Britain to join them and to become one of King Arthur's knights. Upon arrival in Britain Sagramore engages Arthur's Saxon enemies, and receives aid from Arthur's nephew Gawain and his brothers. The group are subsequently knighted by Arthur. The Lancelot-Grail, also known as the prose Lancelot, the Vulgate Cycle, or the Pseudo-Map Cycle, is a major source of Arthurian legend. ... This is a list of the Emperors of the late Eastern Roman Empire, called Byzantine by modern historians. ... Map of Constantinople. ... A bronze Arthur in plate armour with visor raised and with jousting shield wearing Kastenbrust (armor of the beginning of 15c) as ancient armour is one of the chivalrous mourners at the tomb of Emperor Maximilian I (died 1519), in Innsbruck King Arthur is an important figure in the mythology... Map showing the Saxons homeland in traditional region bounded by the three rivers: Weser, Eider, and Elbe Src: Freemans Historical Geographys. The Saxons or Saxon people are (nowadays) part of the German people with its main areas of settlements in the German States of Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Saxony... Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Gawain (Gawan, Gauvain, Walewein etc. ...

The Lancelot-Grail describes him as a good knight, but quick to anger. When fighting, he would go into a frenzy not unlike the Irish hero Cúchulainn's warp spasm; when he came down, he would feel ill and hungry. As he was wont to do, Sir Kay gave him a nickname; "Morte Jeune" (Young Corpse) because he would sometimes go into epilepsy-like fits. The Lancelot-Grail recounts a number of his adventures, often centered around rescuing damsels, and mentions that he had a daughter by one of his paramours who was raised at Arthur's court by Guinevere. His half-sister, Brandegoris' beautiful daughter Claire, falls in love with Sir Bors and sleeps with him; their child is Elyan the White. He dies by Mordred's hand at the Battle of Camlann as one of Arthur's last remaining warriors. Young Cúchulainn, 1912 illustration by Stephen Reid. ... Warp spasm (riastradh in Irish Gaelic) is a mythological feat found in Celtic myth by which warriors enter a frenzied state of contortion in battle that makes them invincible. ... Sir Kay, son of Sir Ector, was one of the Knights of the Round Table and King Arthurs foster brother. ... Queen Guinevere, by William Morris For other uses, see Guinevere (disambiguation). ... In Arthurian Legend, Sir Bors was a Knight of the Round Table. ... Sir Elyan the White or Helyan le Blanc is the son of Sir Bors, and 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. ... The Battle of Camlann is best known as the final battle of King Arthur, where he either died in battle, or was fatally wounded. ...

Other stories

The Post-Vulgate Cycle contains a different backstory for Sagramore. His family rescues Mordred from the sea (afraid of Merlin's prophecy that a child born on May Day will destroy him, Arthur sends children born that day out on a leaky boat) and raises him for the next several years as Sagramore's stepbrother. In the Prose Tristan, Sagramore is portrayed as a great friend to the Cornish knight Tristan, and even alerts the rest of the Round Table to his death. In Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, Sagramore's prowess varies from situation to situation; he usually serves to lose jousts to better knights, but at times he is a valiant fighter. He is also the subject of a fragmentary German romance, Segremors, the surviving portions of which describe his journey to an island ruled by a fay and his undesired combat with his friend Gawain. The Post-Vulgate Cycle is one of the major Old French prose cycles of Arthurian literature. ... Merlin is best known as the mighty wizard featured in the Arthurian legend. ... May Day is May 1, and refers to any of several holidays celebrated on this day. ... The Prose Tristan is an adaptation of the Tristan and Iseult story into a long prose romance, and the first to tie the subject entirely into the arc of the Arthurian legend. ... Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county in South West England on the peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar. ... Tristan and Iseult as depicted by Herbert Draper (1864 -1920). ... 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, from the French la mort dArthur, the death of Arthur) is Sir Thomas Malorys compilation of some French and English Arthurian... It has been suggested that Trooping fairies be merged into this article or section. ...

Sagramore appears with some regularity in modern Arthurian literature. In Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Merlin and Vivien", one of the Idylls of the King, he stumbles into bed with a maiden, thinking he is in his own room; to save their reputation the two strangers wed, but their purity and goodness make their marriage a happy one. The knight appears in the musical Camelot and was played by Peter Bromilow in the film version. Sagramore was memorably portrayed by William Bendix in the 1949 film version of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. In Bernard Cornwell's The Winter King "Sagramor" is a fierce Numidian veteran of the old Roman army. Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (August 6, 1809 - October 6, 1892) is generally regarded as one of the greatest English poets. ... The Idylls of the King is a sequence of poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson that expresses the legend of King Arthur in terms of the psychology and concerns of nineteenth-century England. ... The musical, Camelot, was written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe and is loosely based on the King Arthur legend as adapted from the T.H. White novel The Once and Future King. ... Camelot is the 1967 film version of the successful musical of the same name. ... William Bendix (January 14, 1906 - December 14, 1964) was an American film actor. ... A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. ... Bernard Cornwell OBE (born February 23, 1944) is a prolific and popular English historical novelist. ... now. ... Numidia was an ancient African Berber kingdom and later a Roman province on the northern coast of Africa between the province of Africa (where Tunisia is now) and the province of Mauretania (which is now the western part of Algerias coastal area). ...

References

• Norris J. Lacy et al. The New Arthurian Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1991.

External links

• Sir Sagramore at Early British Kingdoms