King Arthur's court

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King Arthur's court is the legendary royal household and chivalric center of King Arthur's realm, often depicted as a hub of knights, quests, and medieval romance.


Statements (73)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Arthurian setting
fictional location
legendary royal court
associatedWith King Arthur
centeredOn King Arthur
culturalOrigin Anglo-Norman literature
French romance tradition
medieval Welsh tradition
depictedIn comic books
film
opera
poetry
prose romances
television
theatre
video games
describedAs chivalric center of King Arthur's realm
frequentlyLocatedAt Camelot
governedBy King Arthur
Queen Guinevere
hasMember Knights of the Round Table
Sir Bedivere
Sir Bors
Sir Galahad
Sir Gareth
Sir Gawain
Sir Geraint
Sir Kay
Sir Lancelot
Sir Mordred
Sir Palamedes
Sir Percival
Sir Tristan
Sir Yvain
hasMotiveForce ideal of perfect knighthood
ideal of the perfect king
hasResident Lady of the Lake
Merlin
Morgan le Fay
Queen Guinevere
hasTheme Christian symbolism
chivalry
courtly love
heroism
honor
knightly quests
loyalty
magic
medieval romance
pagan motifs
tragedy
influenced later European romance literature
medieval chivalric ideals
modern fantasy literature
knownFor councils of war
feasts
judgments and trials
quest for the Holy Grail
tournaments
literarySource Chrétien de Troyes' Arthurian romances
Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae
Post-Vulgate Cycle
Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur
Vulgate Cycle
narrativeFunction hub for quests
stage for moral testing of knights
symbol of a golden age of Britain
partOf Arthurian legend
sometimesLocatedAt Caerleon
Carduel
Carlion
symbolizedBy Round Table
timePeriodSetting mythic sub-Roman Britain

Referenced by (56)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Bedivere ("Camelot")
Bertilak de Hautdesert ("Camelot")
Gawain ("Round Table")
Gawain ("Camelot")
King Arthur ("Camelot")
King Arthur ("Knights of the Round Table")
King Arthur ("Round Table")
King Arthur's Britain ("Knights of the Round Table")
King Arthur's Britain ("Camelot")
Merlin ("Knights of the Round Table")
Merlin ("Camelot")
Queen Guinevere ("Camelot")
Queen Guinevere ("Round Table")
Sandy ("Camelot")
Sandy ("Knights of the Round Table")
Sir Lancelot ("Camelot")
Sir Lancelot ("Round Table")
Uther Pendragon ("Camelot")
Uther Pendragon ("Round Table")
Vortigern ("Camelot")
associatedWith
Camelot (Broadway production) ("Camelot")
Green Knight ("King Arthur’s court at Camelot")
Hank Morgan ("Camelot")
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword ("Camelot")
Le Morte d'Arthur ("Camelot")
Sandy ("King Arthur’s court")
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ("King Arthur's court at Camelot")
setting
Bedivere ("Knights of the Round Table")
Gawain ("Knights of the Round Table")
Sir Lancelot ("Knights of the Round Table")
memberOf
Alan Jay Lerner ("Camelot")
Franco Nero ("Camelot")
Tamsin Egerton ("Camelot")
notableWork
Camelot (Broadway production) ("Knights of the Round Table")
Camelot (Broadway production) ("Camelot")
Le Morte d'Arthur ("Knights of the Round Table")
subject
Camelot (Broadway production) ("Camelot")
Spamalot ("Knights of the Round Table")
notableSong
Morgan le Fay ("Camelot")
associatedPlace
King Arthur ("Camelot")
court
Round Table, Winchester ("Arthurian Round Table")
describedAs
King Arthur's court ("Camelot")
frequentlyLocatedAt
King Arthur's Britain ("Camelot")
hasCapital
King Arthur's Britain ("Camelot")
hasCenter
King Arthur's Britain ("Round Table")
hasInstitution
Arthurian legend ("Knights of the Round Table")
hasKeyGroup
King Arthur's court ("Knights of the Round Table")
hasMember
Arthurian legend ("Camelot")
hasSetting
Bedivere ("Arthur's court")
partOf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ("Knights of the Round Table")
protagonistAffiliation
Merlin ("Camelot")
residence
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
setInPlace
The Gawain Poet ("Arthurian court (for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)")
settingOfNotableWork
King Arthur ("Round Table")
symbol
King Arthur's court ("Round Table")
symbolizedBy
Thomas Malory ("Knights of the Round Table")
workSubject

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