Bors chooses to save a maiden rather than his brother Lionel

Sir Lionel is the younger son of King Bors of Gaunnes (or Gaul) and brother of Bors the Younger in Arthurian legend. He is a cousin of Lancelot and Hector de Maris. When their father dies in battle against King Claudas, Lionel and Bors are rescued by the Lady of the Lake and raised in her underwater kingdom alongside her stepson Lancelot. Like all his family, Lionel becomes a Knight of the Round Table. Image File history File links Bors_and_Lionel. ... Image File history File links Bors_and_Lionel. ... In Arthurian Legend, Sir Bors was a Knight of the Round Table. ... Map of Gaul circa 58 BC For Gaul after the Roman conquest, see Roman Gaul Gaul (Latin Gallia) was the name given, in ancient times, to the region of Western Europe comprising present-day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the... 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 Arthurian legend, Sir Lancelot (Lancelot du Lac, or Lancelot of the Lake; also Launcelot) is one of the Knights of the Round Table. ... Sir Hector de Maris is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian Legend. ... King Claudas is a fictional Frankish king and an opponent to King Arthur, Lancelot, and Bors in Arthurian legend. ... The Lady of the Lake taking the infant Lancelot. ... 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). ...

Lionel is unlucky about getting beaten with thorns. While travelling with Lancelot as a young man, he is captured by the rogue knight Turquine, who whips him with briars and throws him in the dungeon. The scenario repeats itself later while he is on the Quest for the Holy Grail, where he proves very unworthy of the blessed object by trying to kill his brother for not rescuing him. Bors had seen Lionel getting beaten and led away, but had to make a decision to save either him or a young girl being dragged in the opposite direction. He saves the girl, and fears Lionel dead. But Lionel escapes, and attacks Bors the next time they meet. Bors proves himself worthy of the Grail when he refuses to fight back, and Lionel kills a religious hermit and Sir Calogrenant, a fellow Knight of the Round Table, when they try to protect Bors from his wrath. Before he can strike his brother, however, God intervenes and immobilizes him. In Christian mythology, the Holy Grail was the dish, plate, or cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper, said to possess miraculous powers. ... Onuphrius lived as a hermit in the desert of Upper Egypt in the late 4th century A hermit (from the Greek erēmos, signifying desert, uninhabited, hence desert-dweller) is a person who lives to some greater or lesser degree in seclusion and/or isolation from society. ... Sir Calogrenant, sometimes known in English as Colgrevance, is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend. ...

Lionel and the rest of his family follow Lancelot into exile when the affair with Guinevere is exposed. Lionel participates in the battles against Arthur's forces, and becomes King of Gaunnes. After the Battle of Camlann, Lancelot's family returns to Britain to defeat the remainder of Mordred's forces. Lionel is slain by Mordred's son Melehan; Bors avenges his death. Queen Guinevere, by William Morris For other uses, see Guinevere (disambiguation). ... The Battle of Camlann is best known as the final battle of King Arthur, where he either died in battle, or was fatally wounded. ... 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. ... Melehan is a son of Sir Mordred featured in the Matter of Britain. ...

Sir Lionel is the subject of a folk ballad from the late Middle Ages, in which he slays a giant wild boar. The song, Child Ballad number 18, was recorded in the Appalachians as late as the early 20th century. Popular variants include "Old Bangum" and "Wild Hog." Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ... A ballad is a story in a song, usually a narrative song or poem. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Binomial name Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758 The Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) is the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig. ... The Child Ballads are a collection of 305 ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, collected by Francis James Child. ... A rainy day in the Great Smoky Mountains, Western North Carolina Appalachia, the central and southern Appalachian Mountains of the United States, also including the Allegany and Cumberland Plateaus The Appalachian Mountains (French: les Appalaches) are a vast system of North American mountains, partly in Canada, but mostly in the... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...

Quest for Camelot

Sir Lionel appears in the 1998, Warner Bros. film, Quest for Camelot as the father of Kayley, a spunkey girl with dreams of becoming a Knight of the Round Table just like her father, when Lionel is killed by the evil Beron Ruber eventually leading up to Kayley's amazing adventure, her Quest for Camelot. Quest for Camelot is an animated feature from Warner Bros. ...

External links

• Sir Lionel at Early British Kingdoms
• One version of the folk ballad Sir Lionel