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Bellicent
Bellicent, daughter of Gorloïs lord of Tintagil and his wife Ygernê or Igerna. As the widow married Uther the pen-dragon, and was then the mother of king Arthur, it follows that Bellicent was half-sister of Arthur.
The beautiful Queen Bellicent had many sons, all of whom had gone out in the world except the youngest. His name was Gareth. His two brothers, Gawain and Modred, were with the good King Arthur, and Gareth longed to join them. His mother, however, would not let him go. King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table By Maude L. Radford
Tennyson in Gareth
and Lynette says that Bellicent was the wife of Lot king of
Orkney, and mother of Gawain and Mordred, but this is not in
accordance either with the
chronicle or the history, for Geoffrey in his Chronicle says
that Lot's wife was Anne, the sister (not half-sister) of Arthur
(viii. 20, 21), and Malory says: King Lot of Lothan and Orkney
wedded Margawse; Nentres, of the land of Carlot, wedded Elain;
and that Morgan le Fay was [Arthurs] third sister. Le
Morte d'Arthur By Sir Thomas Malory
History of
the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Translated by James Ingram
