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Anton
Sir Anton. Tennyson, in Idylls
of the King, says that Merlin gave Arthur, when an infant, to
sir Anton and his lady to bring up, and they brought him up as
their own son. This does not correspond with Malory, who states
that he was committed to the care of sir Ector and his lady,
whose son, sir Key, is over and over again called the prince's
foster-brother. Le Morte
d'Arthur By Sir Thomas Malory furthermore states that Arthur
made sir Key his seneschal because he was his foster-brother.
"So the child was delivered unto Merlin, and he bare him forth
unto sir Ector, and made a holy man christen him, and named him
"Arthur." And so sir Ector's wife nourished him with her own
breast.
So sir Ector rode to the justs, and with him rode sir Key, his
son, and young Arthur that was his nourished brother.
"Sir," said sir Ector, "I will ask no more of you but that you
will make my son, sir Key, your foster-brother, seneschal of all
your lands." "That shall be done," said Arthur. Le Morte
d'Arthur.
