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Guinevere
Guinevere
, often written as
Guenevere
or
Gwenevere
, was the wife of
King Arthur
in the
Arthurian Legend
. In medieval
romances
, one of the most prominent story arcs is Queen Guinevere's love affair with her husband's chief knight
Sir Lancelot
. This story first appeared in
Chrétien de Troyes
's
Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart
and became a motif in Arthurian literature, starting with the
Lancelot-Grail Cycle
of the early 13th century and carrying through the
Post-Vulgate
Cycle and
Thomas Malory
's
Le Morte d'Arthur
. Guinevere and Lancelot's betrayal of Arthur preceded his eventual defeat at the battle of
Camlann
by
Sir Mordred
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