Lancelot

Lancelot du Lac (French for Lancelot of the Lake), also written as Launcelot and other variants, is a character in some versions of Arthurian legend where he is typically depicted as King Arthur's close companion and one of the greatest Knights of the Round Table. In the French-inspired Arthurian chivalric romance tradition, Lancelot is an orphaned son of King Ban of the lost kingdom of Benoic, raised in a fairy realm by the Lady of the Lake. A hero of many battles, quests and tournaments, and famed as a nearly unrivalled swordsman and jouster, Lancelot becomes the lord of the castle Joyous Gard and personal champion of Arthur's wife, Queen Guinevere, despite suffering from frequent and sometimes prolonged fits of madness. But when his adulterous affair with Guinevere is discovered, it causes a civil war that, once exploited by Mordred, brings an end to Arthur's kingdom.

Lancelot's first datable appearance as main character is found in Chrétien de Troyes' 12th-century French poem ''Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart'', which already centered around his courtly love for Guinevere. However, another early Lancelot poem, ''Lanzelet'', a German translation of an unknown French book, did not feature such a motif and the connections between the both texts and their possible common source are uncertain. Later, his character and story was expanded upon Chrétien's tale in the other works of Arthurian romance, especially through the vast ''Lancelot-Grail'' prose cycle that presented the now-familiar version of his legend following its abridged retelling in ''Le Morte d'Arthur''. There, Lancelot's and Lady Elaine's son Galahad, devoid of his father's flaws of character, becomes the perfect knight that succeeds in completing the greatest of all quests, achieving the Holy Grail when Lancelot himself fails due to his sins. Both loyal and treasonous, Lancelot has remained a popular character for centuries and is often being variably reimagined by modern authors. Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Lancelot
    Published 1494
    Paris, Antoine Verard, 1494.
    3 v.
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    by Lancelot
    Published 1911
    Marburg : E. Karras, 1911.
    xii, 63 p., 2 folded inserts ; 23 cm.
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    by Lancelot, Francis
    Published 1971
    1971.
    1 v. (various pagings)
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    by Lengyel, Lancelot
    Published 1954
    Montrouge-Seine, Editions Corvina [1954]
    59 p. 48 tav., 1 c. geogr. 35 cm.
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    London, John W. Parker [n.d.]
    13 p.
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    by Lancelot, Gérard
    Published 1974
    1974.
    211 p.
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    by Lancelot, André
    Published 1961
    [Paris, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Laboratoire de Cryptogamie, 1961]
    210 p. illus.
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    by Lancelot, Alain
    Published 1968
    Paris, A. Colin, 1968.
    xiv, 290 p. illus., maps. 24 cm.
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    by Serrao, Lancelot Oswald
    Published 1983
    1983.
    204 p.
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    by Dobson, James Lancelot
    Published 1959
    1959.
    1 microfilm reel ; 35mm.
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    by Lancelot, Claude, 1615?-1695
    Published 1685
    Paris, A. Pralard, 1685.
    6 p. l., 41, [2] p. illus. (music) 21 cm.
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    by Hogben, Lancelot Thomas, 1895-
    Published 1927
    New York, Macmillan, 1927.
    148 p. illus.
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    by Hopewell-Ash, Edwin Lancelot
    Published 1910
    London, Glaisher, 1910.
    116 p.
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    by Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626
    Published 1641
    London : Printed by Richard Badger ..., 1641.
    [14], 1020 (i.e. 1028), 167 (i.e. 169), [2], 22, [16] pages : portrait.
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    by Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626
    Published 1678
    Copenhagen, 1678.
    [14], 72 p.
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    by Hogben, Lancelot Thomas, 1895-
    Published 1924
    London : W. Collins sons & co., [1924]
    vii, 242 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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    by Sieveking, Lancelot de Giberne
    Published 1928
    New York, Brentano's, 1928.
    305, [1] p. front., illus., 2 pl. (1 double) 20 cm.
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    by Hopewell-Ash, Edwin Lancelot
    Published 1910
    London, Glaisher, 1910.
    1 online resource (116 p.)
    Center for Research Libraries
    Online Resource
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    by Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626
    Published 1865
    Oxford : J.H. Parker, 1865-1871.
    5 v. ; 22 cm.
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    by Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626
    Published 1642
    London : Printed for Michael Sparke, Robert Milbourne, Richard Cotes, and Andrew Crooke, 1642.
    [6], 855, 136, [2], 59 pages : portrait.
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