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Pellinore
Sir Pellinore, king of the isles and knight of the Round Table. He was a good man of power, was called “The Knight with the Stranger Beast,” and slew King Lot of Orkney, but was himself slain ten years afterwards by Sir Gawain, one of Lot’s sons. Sir Pellinore had, by the wife of Aries, the cowherd, a son named Sir Tor, who was the first knight of the Round Table created by King Arthur; one daughter, Elein, by the Lady of Rule; and three sons in lawful wedlock; Sir Aglouale (sometimes called Aglavale, probably a clerical error), Sir Lamorake Dornar (also called Sir Lamorake de Galis), and Sir Percivale de Gralis. The widow succeeded to the throne . Le Morte d'Arthur By Sir Thomas Malory.
Milton calls the name “Pellenore”
Fair damsels, met in forests wide
By knights of Logres, or of Lyones,
Lancelot, or Pelleas, or Pellenore.
Book 2
Paradise Regained by John Milton
"The King had broken his sword in two pieces in a combat with Sir Pellinore of Wales, and had been saved by Merlin, who threw Sir Pellinore into an enchanted sleep." The Sword of Arthur from Legends and Romances of Brittany by Lewis Spence
