# Sir Ironside — Le Morte d’Arthur character guide

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

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Ironside

**First appearance:** 0004-i

## Who they are

The Red Knight of the Red Launds, defeated by Gareth.

## In the story

### [How the brother of the knight that was slain met with Beaumains, and fought with Beaumains till he was yielden](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/viii)

The Green Knight, brother of the Black Knight Sir Perard; yields to Beaumains and becomes his man.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/ix)

The Green Knight who defends Beaumains, offers him the service of thirty knights, and acknowledges Beaumains as a better knight than himself.

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

The Red Knight of the Red Launds, yields to King Arthur and seeks forgiveness from Launcelot and Gawaine.

### [How King Arthur pardoned them, and demanded of them where Sir Gareth was](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xxiv)

Explains that young knights like Beaumains are hard to find as they are always on adventures.

### [XXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xxix)

Fights strongly against Sir Lamorak and later identifies Sir Gareth.

### [How Queen Guenever rode a-Maying with certain knights of the Round Table and clad all in green](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/i)

One of the ten knights accompanying the queen on the Maying ride, called the Knight of the Red Launds.

### [How Sir Meliagrance Took the Queen and Her Knights](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/ii)

One of the knights who fought long and was sore wounded.

### [How Sir Launcelot Had Word How the Queen Was Taken](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/iii)

One of the knights who fought in the battle against Meliagrance.

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