# Sir Griflet — Le Morte d’Arthur character guide

> Sir Griflet in Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Griflet, Sir Griflet le Fise de Dieu

**First appearance:** 0004-i

## Who they are

A young knight of the Round Table who serves Arthur.

## In the story

### [Of a great tourney made by King Arthur and the two kings Ban and Bors, and how they went over the sea](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xi)

Fights valiantly and is awarded the prize alongside Kay and Lucas.

### [How the eleven kings with their host fought against Arthur and his host, and many great feats of the war](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xiv)

Unhorsed early, then rescues Sir Kay by smiting Pinel and giving him a horse, later rescues Lucas the butler.

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

Sir Griflet assists in holding the six kings and does great deeds with King Arthur.

### [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)

A young squire who asks King Arthur to knight him to avenge Sir Miles's death.

### [How Griflet was made knight, and jousted with a knight](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xxii)

Newly knighted, Griflet insists on jousting with the knight at the fountain and is wounded and defeated.

### [XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xxiii)

Previously wounded in a joust, he is healed by good leeches after being carried to court.

### [How King Arthur had ado with them and overthrew them, and slew the five kings and made the remnant to flee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/iii)

Part of the small group, slays the fourth king by breaking his neck.

### [How the battle was finished or he came, and how King Arthur founded an abbey where the battle was](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/iv)

Recommended by Pellinore as a good knight and full desirous in arms.

### [How the six knights sent Sir Dagonet to joust with King Mark, and how King Mark refused him](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xii)

Arrives at the castle and joins the fellowship, bringing Sir Dagonet with him.

### [How Sir Palomides by adventure met King Mark flying, and how he overthrew Dagonet and other knights](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xiii)

Overthrown by Sir Palomides.

### [How Sir Gawaine came to the abbey for to follow Galahad, and how he was shriven to a hermit](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xvi)

Meets Gawaine after he departs the hermit; rides with him and Sir Aglovale for four days.

### [How Sir Colgrevance fought against Sir Lionel for to save Sir Bors, and how the hermit was slain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xv)

Fights Lionel to save Bors and is gravely wounded.

### [The Tourney at Winchester](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/x)

Listed among the fifteen knights of the Round Table who join the battle.

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