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King Lot
Lot, consul of Londonesia, and afterwards king of Norway. He was brother of Urian and Augusel, and married Anne (own sister of king Arthur), by whom he had two sons, Walgan and Modred. History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth.
N.B.—This account differs so widely from that of Arthurian romance, that it is not possible to reconcile them. In the History of Prince Arthur, Lot king of Orkney marries Margawse the “sister of king Arthur”. Tennyson, in his Gareth and Lynette, says that Lot’s wife was Bellicent. Again, the sons of Lot are called, in the History, Gawain, Aravain, Gaheris, and Gareth; Mordred is their half-brother, being the son of king Arthur and the same mother. Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Lot, king of Orkney. According to the Morte d’Arthur, king Lot’s wife was Margawse or Morgawse, sister of king Arthur, and their sons were sir Gawain, sir Agravain, sir Gaheris, and sir Gareth. Le Morte d'Arthur By Sir Thomas Malory
Once or twice Elaine is called the wife of Lot, but this is a mistake. Elaine was Arthur’s sister by the same mother, and was the wife of sir Nentres of Carlot. Mordred was the son of Morgawse by her brother Arthur, and consequently Gawain, Agravain, Gaheris, and Gareth were his half-brothers.
Lot, king of Orkney. According to Tennyson, king Lot’s wife was Bellicent, daughter of Gorloïs lord of Tintagel Castle, in Cornwall, and Lot was the father of Gawain and Modred. This account differs entirely from Le Morte d'Arthur, by sir T. Malory. There the wife of Lot is called Margawse or Morgawse (Arthur’s sister). Geoffrey of Monmouth, on the other hand, calls her Anne (Arthur’s sister). The sons of Lot, according to the History, were Gawain, Agravain, Gaheris, and Gareth; Modred or Mordred being the offspring of Morgawse and Arthur.
This ignoble birth the History assigns as the reason of
Mordred’s hatred to king Arthur, his adulterous father and
uncle. Lot was subdued by king Arthur, fighting on behalf of
Leodogran or Leodogrance king of
Cameliard. (See Tennyson: Coming
of Arthur.)
"And King Lot of Lothian and of Orkney then wedded Margawse
that was Gawaine’s mother, and King Nentres of the land of
Garlot wedded Elaine. All this was done at the request of King
Uther. And the third sister Morgan le Fay was put to school in a
nunnery, and there she learned so much that she was a great clerk
of necromancy. And after she was wedded to King Uriens of the
land of Gore, that was Sir Ewain’s le Blanchemain’s
father."
Le
Morte d'Arthur By Sir Thomas Malory. Book
I
"Mordred, Arthur's great opponent and eventual vanquisher, is
the dark and sinister character, the man of mysterious origin and
of blighting influence, moving gloomily through the drama. By
some said to be Arthur's own son, a child of sin and crime, and
by others said to be the son of King Lot and Arthur's sister, his
life was miraculously preserved when the king ordered the slaying
of all children born on May-day, in the hope of removing the
infant who, as Merlin had prophesied to him, " shall destroy you
and all the knights of your realm "; and thereafter he played a
malignant part in the drama."
The
Lost Land Of King Arthur By J. Cuming Walters
