# King Anguish of Ireland — Le Morte d’Arthur character guide

> King Anguish of Ireland in Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** King Anguish

**First appearance:** 0004-i

## Who they are

King of Ireland and father of La Beale Isoud.

## In the story

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/ii)

Pledges twenty thousand men to support Arthur against the Romans, recalling past oppressions.

### [How Sir Marhaus Came for Truage](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/iv)

Sends Sir Marhaus to Cornwall to demand truage.

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/viii)

Receives Tristram (as Tramtrist) and promises help, lamenting the loss of Sir Marhaus.

### [How Sir Tristram was put to the keeping of La Beale Isoud](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/ix)

Proclaims the tournament for the Lady of the Launds and questions Tristram about his refusal to joust.

### [How the queen espied that Sir Tristram had slain her brother Sir Marhaus by his sword, and in what jeopardy he was.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xi)

King of Ireland; he restrains his wife and grants Tristram safe departure on condition of revealing his identity.

### [How Sir Tristram departed from the king and La Beale Isoud out of Ireland for to come into Cornwall](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xii)

Acknowledges Tristram's knightly conduct but cannot keep him in Ireland due to pressure from his barons and queen.

### [The Trial of King Anguish and the Rescue of the Child](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xx)

Summoned to Camelot to answer an accusation of treason by Sir Blamore de Ganis; granted a three-day respite.

### [How Sir Tristram rescued a child from a knight, and how Gouvernail told him of King Anguish](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xxi)

Appealed for murder and challenged by Sir Blamore de Ganis; seeks Tristram's help.

### [How Sir Tristram fought for Sir Anguish and overcame his adversary, and how his adversary would never yield him.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xxii)

Seeks Tristram as his champion in the trial by combat.

### [How Sir Blamore desired Tristram to slay him, and how Sir Tristram spared him, and how they took appointment.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xxiii)

Championed by Sir Tristram; agrees to show mercy on Sir Blamore at Tristram's request.

### [How Sir Tristram demanded La Beale Isoud for King Mark, and how Sir Tristram and Isoud drank the love drink.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xxiv)

Grants Tristram's boon to take Isoud to Cornwall for marriage to King Mark.

### [How Sir Galahad fought with Sir Tristram, and how Sir Tristram yielded him and promised to fellowship with Launcelot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xxvii)

Mentioned as the father of La Beale Isoud, from whom Sir Tristram fetched her.

### [How Sir Tristram smote down Sir Palomides, and how he jousted with King Arthur, and other feats](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xxxiii)

Encountered by the King of Northgalis and the King with the Hundred Knights, and is smitten down.

### [Of great jousts done all a Christmas, and of a great jousts and tourney ordained by King Arthur, and of Sir Launcelot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xxi)

Takes part on the side of the King of Northgalis against King Arthur.

### [How Launcelot after that he was hurt of a gentlewoman came to an hermit, and of other matters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xxii)

Brings one hundred good knights to the jousting field.

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