# Igraine — Le Morte d’Arthur character guide

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

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Queen Igraine, fair Igraine

**First appearance:** 0003-book-i

## Who they are

Arthur's mother, wife of Uther Pendragon.

## In the story

### [How Uther Pendragon Sent for the Duke of Cornwall and Igraine His Wife](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/i)

Fair and wise wife of the Duke of Cornwall, refuses Uther's advances.

### [How Uther Pendragon Made War on the Duke of Cornwall](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/ii)

Duchess of Cornwall, unknowingly lies with Uther in disguise, conceives Arthur, and later becomes queen.

### [Of the Birth of King Arthur and of His Nurture](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/iii)

Queen Igraine confesses to King Uther the truth of Arthur's conception, revealing that Uther came to her in disguise on the night of her husband's death.

### [Of the death of King Uther Pendragon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/iv)

Queen Igraine mourns deeply after King Uther's death.

### [How King Arthur held in Wales, at a Pentecost, a great feast, and what kings and lords came to his feast.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/viii)

Mentioned as the wife of the Duke of Tintagil and later wedded to King Uther Pendragon, mother of Arthur.

### [How King Pellinore Took Arthur's Horse and Followed the Questing Beast, and How Merlin Met with Arthur](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xx)

Arthur's mother, Queen Igraine, is sent for and arrives with her daughter Morgan le Fay to confirm Arthur's parentage.

### [How Ulfius impeached Queen Igraine, Arthur’s mother, of treason; and how a knight came and desired to have the death of his master revenged.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xxi)

Defends herself against Ulfius's accusations and is reunited with Arthur.

### [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xi)

Mentioned as the former wife of the Duke of Tintagil and later of Uther Pendragon, mother of Arthur.

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