# Ettard — Le Morte d’Arthur character guide

> Ettard in Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** the Lady Ettard

**First appearance:** 0004-i

## Who they are

A lady who scorns Sir Pelleas's love.

## In the story

### [How a Knight and a Dwarf Strove for a Lady](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xx)

The lady loved by Sir Pelleas; she is the fairest lady at the jousts, but her feelings toward him are not shown.

### [How King Pelleas suffered himself to be taken prisoner because he would have a sight of his lady, and how Sir Gawaine promised him to get to him the love of his lady](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xxi)

The proud lady whom Pelleas loves; she scorns him and subjects him to shameful treatment, refusing his love.

### [How Sir Gawaine came to the Lady Ettard, and how Sir Pelleas found them sleeping](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xxii)

Initially hates Pelleas, is deceived by Gawaine, later enchanted to love Pelleas but is rejected by him.

### [How Sir Pelleas loved no more Ettard by means of the Damosel of the Lake, whom he loved ever after](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xxiii)

Dies of sorrow after Pelleas rejects her

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