# Sir Pelleas — Le Morte d’Arthur character guide

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

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Pelleas, Sir knight Pelleas

**First appearance:** 0004-i

## Who they are

A knight who suffers unrequited love for the Lady Ettard.

## In the story

### [How a Knight and a Dwarf Strove for a Lady](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xx)

Defeats ten knights but allows himself to be bound and led away; revealed to be the best knight in the world, hopelessly in love with Lady Ettard.

### [How King Pelleas suffered himself to be taken prisoner because he would have a sight of his lady, and how Sir Gawaine promised him to get to him the love of his lady](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xxi)

A lord of the Isles, deeply in love with Lady Ettard, who scorns and humiliates him; he suffers her knights' abuses willingly for a sight of her.

### [How Sir Gawaine came to the Lady Ettard, and how Sir Pelleas found them sleeping](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xxii)

Discovers Gawaine and Ettard together, refrains from killing them sleeping out of knightly honor, and resolves to die of sorrow.

### [How Sir Pelleas loved no more Ettard by means of the Damosel of the Lake, whom he loved ever after](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xxiii)

Overcomes his love for Lady Ettard and begins a new life with the Damosel of the Lake

### [The Return to Court and the Rise of New Knights](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/xxviii)

Brought by the Damosel of the Lake; wins the prize at jousting; becomes a Knight of the Round Table and later achieves the Sangreal.

### [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, described as 'the lover'.

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

Fights fiercely among the ten knights and declares he cares not for his life or death.

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

Fought strongly in the battle before being overcome.

### [How Sir Bedivere Found Him on the Morrow Dead in an Hermitage](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/le_morte_d_arthur_se/chapters/vi)

Mentioned as having wedded Nimue, the Lady of the Lake, and living in great rest.

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