# King Lot of Lothian — Le Morte d’Arthur character guide

> King Lot of Lothian in Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** King Lot, King Lot of Orkney

**First appearance:** 0004-i

## Who they are

A rebel king and father of Gawaine and Mordred.

## In the story

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

Marries Margawse, Gawaine's mother, at King Uther's request.

### [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)

Attends the feast with five hundred knights, scorns Merlin's words, and is one of the kings opposing Arthur.

### [Of the first war that King Arthur had, and how he won the field](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/ix)

Leads the rebel kings, breaks out on the back side, and smites down King Arthur.

### [How Eleven Kings Gathered a Great Host Against King Arthur](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xii)

King Lot, father of Sir Gawaine, swears to bring five thousand men of arms on horseback against Arthur.

### [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xv)

King Lot is wounded by Arthur, makes great dole, and devises a plan with the ten kings.

### [The Battle Against the Eleven Kings](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xvi)

Leads the eleven kings, advises them to abandon footmen and fight as cavalry, weeps at the slaughter caused by King Ban.

### [How all the children were sent for that were born on May-day, and how Mordred was saved](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xxvii)

Mordred is sent by King Lot's wife, implying Lot's connection to the child.

### [The Battle Against Nero and King Lot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/x)

Fights against Arthur due to Arthur's affair with his wife; slain by King Pellinore after being unhorsed.

### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xiii)

Referenced as the father of Sir Gawaine, whose death is to be avenged.

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