Sir Galahad sits at the Siege Perilous, 15th-century French manuscript.

In Arthurian legend, the Siege Perilous (also known as The Perilous Seat) is a vacant seat at the Round Table reserved by Merlin for the knight who would one day be successful in the quest for the Holy Grail. This knight is either Perceval or Sir Galahad, depending on the version of the story. The Siege Perilous is so strictly reserved that it is fatal to anyone else who sits in it. In Arthurian legend, the Siege Perilous, otherwise known as The Seat Perilous, is the seat at the Round Table reserved for the knight who would quest for and return the Holy Grail. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... 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. ... King Arthur presides the Round Table. ... Merlin Ambrosius (Welsh: Myrddin Emrys (Merlin the Wise); also known as Myrddin Wyllt (Merlin the Wild), Merlin Caledonensis (Scottish Merlin), Merlinus, and Merlyn) is the personage best known as the mighty wizard featured in Arthurian legends, starting with Geoffrey of Monmouths Historia Regum Britanniae. ... The silver Anglia knight, commissioned as a trophy in 1850, intended to represent the Black Prince. ... For other uses, see Holy Grail (disambiguation). ... Percival or Perceval is one of King Arthurs legendary Knights of the Round Table. ... A portrait of Sir Galahad by George Frederick Watts. ...

In Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur, the newly knighted Sir Galahad takes the seat in Camelot on Whitsunday, 454 years after the death of Jesus. Sir Thomas Malory (c. ... The Last Sleep of Arthur by Edward Burne-Jones Le Morte dArthur (spelled 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... This article is about the mythical castle. ... The term Whitsunday may refer to: The Sunday of the feast of Whitsun or Pentecost in the Christian calendar, observed 50 days after Easter. ... This article is about Jesus of Nazareth. ...

Another version of this story is related in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King. 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 (1856 - 1885) are a cycle of poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson that express the legend of King Arthur in terms of the psychology and concerns of nineteenth-century England. ...