![]() ![]() ![]() He was said to have been imprisoned many times during the War of the Roses (he variously supported both sides) though he denied all crimes. A likely candidate is Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel, whose life story is rather obscure though he was identified as a “knight prisoner” in the literature (“Sir Thomas Malory”). ![]() The name Sir Thomas Malory was made famous by the chronicles of King Arhur (published by William Caxton in 1485), though scholars have not definitively idenfied him. Many authors since the 19th-century revival of the legend have used Malory as their principal source (“Le Morte d’Arthur”). Today, this is one of the best-known works of Arthurian literature. In order to tell a “complete” story of Arthur from his conception to his death, Malory compiled, rearranged, interpreted and modified material from various French and English sources. Le Morte d’Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, ungrammatical Middle French for “The Death of Arthur”) is a 15th-century Middle English prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table-along with their respective folklore. “The Death of Arthur” by John Garrick, 1862. ![]()
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