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  Guinevere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guinevere was the Queen consort of King Arthur.
Guinevere grows up with Lancelot, an orphan, as a Pagan under the tutelage of Morgan Le Fey, who harbors a grudge for King Uther and his son, Arthur due to Uther's murder of her father and seizure of her mother.
The children's television show Guinevere Jones revolves around the adventures of a girl who finds that she is the reincarnation of the Guinevere of legend.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guinevere   (1264 words)

  
 GUINEVERE: TEXTS, IMAGES, BASIC INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Brickdale, Eleanor Fortescue- (1872-1945), "Lancelot and Guinevere" (1911)
Brickdale, Eleanor Fortescue- (1872-1945), "Elaine, Guinevere, and Vivien" (1911)
Brickdale, Eleanor Fortescue- (1872-1945), "Guinevere in the Nunnery" (1911)
www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/guinmenu.htm   (929 words)

  
 Queen consort -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A queen consort is the (A married woman; a man's partner in marriage) wife and (The husband or wife of a reigning monarch) consort of a reigning (A male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom) king.
Queen (The mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics) Mary, consort of King (additional info and facts about George V of the United Kingdom) George V of the United Kingdom
Queen Catherine, first consort of King (additional info and facts about Henry VIII of England) Henry VIII of England is called (First wife of Henry VIII; Henry's divorce from her was the initial step of the Reformation in England (1485-1536)) Catherine of Aragon.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/q/qu/queen_consort.htm   (737 words)

  
 XI. Queen Guenever’s Peril. King Arthur and His Knights. Vol. III: The Age of Chivalry. Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913. ...
For this purpose he concealed the poison in an apple of fine appearance, which he placed on the top of several others, and put the dish before the queen, hoping that, as Sir Gawain was the knight of greatest dignity, she would present the apple to him.
But it happened that a Scottish knight of high distinction, who arrived on that day, was seated next to the queen, and to him as a stranger she presented the apple, which he had no sooner eaten than he was seized with dreadful pain, and fell senseless.
The queen hath ill bestowed her favors, and honored many a knight, that in her hour of need she should have none to take her part.
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 Guinevere Warrior Queen
Guinevere’s father wanted her to be well trained to defend her large estates so he sent her to the Roman training camp at Caerlaverock on the east bank of the Nith.
Guinevere was held captive for a year on the first kidnapping.
Guinevere was older than Modred but by the amount of years is not known.
www.electricscotland.com /history/guinevere.htm   (572 words)

  
 Guinevere   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Geoffrey of Monmouth tells a slightly different version of Guinevere's abduction, adding that she was descended from a noble Roman family and was the ward of Cador, Duke of Cornwall.
Throughout various retellings of Arthurian myth, there are aspect of other Guineveres: the Mabinogion's Gwenhwyvach, her sister who marries Mordred, the false Guinevere from the French version who took her place for two and a half years, and another Guinevere entirely, the first wife of Arthur who died in childbirth.
From his exhaustive and numerous chapters on Arthur's marriage to Guinevere to her imprisonment with Meleagant to her affair with Lancelot that leads to Mordred's lust and Agravain's revenge upon the Fellowship of the Camelot, Malory remains the definitive stroyteller for Guinevere, for better or for worse.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/G/Guinevere.htm   (1089 words)

  
 Arthurian Biographies: Ambrosius Aurelianus
Early mentions of Guinevere, in the Triads of the Island of Britain, give tantalising glimpses of her original relationship with Mordred: he is shown forcing his way into Arthur's Court, dragging the Queen from her throne and striking her, but the reasons why are unknown.
Guinevere is frequently abducted in Romance, sometimes by King Melwas of Somerset, sometimes by Mordred and sometimes by the marauding tribes from the north.
Whatever Guinevere was or was not, she has been a useful tool in the hands of the romancers throughout the centuries and has greatly enhanced the legends of King Arthur.
www.britannia.com /history/biographies/guinever.html   (505 words)

  
 Lancelot du Lac
Guinevere thought he was lying, until Sir Yvain pointed out that he made have been subjected to promise not to disclose his name, not really realising that youth actually did not know his own identity.
Guinevere was stripped of her title and power as queen, while he set the False Guinevere took her place as Arthur's wife and consort.
Guinevere was upset that her lover had been captured, but she had no choice but to leave Gorre with her people, and returned to her husband in Logres.
www.timelessmyths.com /arthurian/lancelot.html   (15061 words)

  
 Arthurian Women
According to earlier legend, Arthur met Guinevere or Guenevere (she was called Guanhumara by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the Historia regnum Britanniae) in the court of Duke Cador of Cornwall.
Guinevere was said to be a wise queen as well as one of the most beautiful women in the world.
She was the fairy queen or one of the queens of Avalon.
www.timelessmyths.com /arthurian/women.html   (9966 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Guinevere feels guilty about the “dream” she wants to confess it because her religion says dreaming is the same as doing.
Guinevere does not want to have the threesome because she is sworn to Arthur as his loving wife.
Guinevere is unaware that her husband Arthur participated in the Beltane feast and is shocked by the fact that he has a son by someone else.
www.uh.edu /writecen/faculty/stock/reel2004/warequeens/guinevere.doc   (2639 words)

  
 story#4
Guinevere, meanwhile, was taken into a convent and became a nun.
The good nuns allowed Queen Guinevere to keep me around her neck, so I was able to comfort her in her sorrow while she lived in the convent.
Guinevere is kneeling on the floor praying and she is very weak.
students.ou.edu /H/Susan.L.Heimlich-1/story   (608 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Dragon Queen: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In the prologue, Guinevere writes: "I am myself a creature of the dance, the imitation of the movements embraced by the dialogue between earth and sky," and readers will be eager for the dance to be continued in the next installment.
She is hidden from the arch-druid Merlin at an early age and is raised by a druid and family of wolves and werewolves.
Guinevere and Arthur must navigate the trials that they are thrown into by Merlin and Igraine if they are to win their thrones and be reunited.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345444000?v=glance   (1773 words)

  
 The Arthurian Kingdom : King Arthur's Relatives
Queen Guinevere was the wife of King Arthur and is famous for her affair with Sir Launcelot.
Guinevere is always beautiful and elegant (and sometimes a powerful sorceress), although there is some doubt as to the real instances of her relationship with Launcelot.
Guinevere either meets her end at a convent, dies by the vengeful hand of Launcelot or dies while imprisoned by Mordred's followers at Strathmore.
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 The Page o' Guinevere (aka All The Gwen You Could Ever Want)
The fundamental importance of Guinevere's character rests in her betrayal of Arthur, which takes form in a manner appropriate to the predominate theme of the text in which it appears.
Guinevere today is a tainted characer; she cannot be written anew.
Guinevere is defined by this single act, and written without it, remains herself solely in name.
www.uidaho.edu /student_orgs/arthurian_legend/ladies/gwen/gwen.htm   (333 words)

  
 A summary of Chrétien de Troyes poem 'The Knight of the Cart' (Lancelot)
The queen was captured by Meleagant, 'a huge and mighty knight' and son to king Bagdemagu of Gorre, who has carried Guinevere off to his father's kingdom.
Guinevere's assent to this proposal is heard by Lancelot and he stops fighting, but Meleagant continues to attack him though Lancelot does not resist him in any way.
After Guinevere had returned to Arthur's court, the king granted the request of the ladies and maidens that she attend this tournament, provided Guinevere was willing.
www.geocities.com /dagonet_uk/poemab.htm   (7749 words)

  
 Amazon.com: High Queen (High Queen): Books: Nancy Mckenzie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Guinevere reigned strong and true, at the side of her beloved King Arthur.
Both books are the basic Arthurian legend as told by Guinevere, but be warned, there are a few twists, (not giving anything away), Nancy McKenzie presents her own Mordred, one who is much different from the evil bastard son most may expect.
For instance, Guinevere is a heroine that you really like, except that she seemsto say "but i'm only a woman!" before she goes off and does something noble or heroic.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345382455?v=glance   (1417 words)

  
 Bunnykins Queen Guinevere by Royal Doulton
Guinevere was the daughter of Leodegrance, who was a very old friend of Uther, Arthur's father.
Guinevere was very beautiful with long red hair, hazel eyes and a warm smile.
Arthur and Guinevere fell in love when Guinevere and her father come to stay with Arthur.
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 Queen Guinevere   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
When the king easily passed through all the defense systems of her quarters and kissed her, Joan remembered she had been her queen in a previous life.
Even though they did not want to hurt Arthur anymore, they could do nothing to avoid getting involved once more, specially after Lancelot saved her life again when she was shot by Owen McAllister.
The king started a search for the grail to heal him and it was Lancelot, Guinevere and Perceval who found it.
pc59te.dte.uma.es /cdb/series/dc/guinevere.htm   (451 words)

  
 Guinevere --  Encyclopædia Britannica
In early Welsh literature, one Gwenhwyvar was “the first lady of this island”; in Geoffrey of Monmouth's inventive Historia regum Britanniae (early 12th century), she was named Guanhumara and was presented as a Roman lady.
one of the greatest knights in Arthurian romance; he was the lover of Arthur's queen, Guinevere, and was the father of the pure knight Sir Galahad.
Known also as Lancelot of the Lake, he was the lover of King Arthur's queen, Guinevere, and the father of the pure knight Sir Galahad.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9038441?tocId=9038441   (584 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: King Arthur
In the late prose romances the love affair between Arthur's champion, Lancelot, and the Queen, Guinevere, becomes the central reason for the fall of the Arthurian world.
In the romances, Arthur is killed in his last battle, the Battle of Camlann, in which he fought against the forces of Mordred.
Their grave was shown to many people, and the reputed remains were moved to a new tomb in 1278.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/King-Arthur   (10943 words)

  
 Guinevere, Lady of Camelot
A bittersweet tale of love and romance, depsite her betrothal and love for the King, Lady Guinevere found Lancelot (not yet a knight) charming and handsome, and he evoked in her feelings she didn't know existed until she lay in his arms after he rescued her from a fate worse than death.
And Lady Guinevere, Queen of Camelot, farewells and mourns for her husband.
I do not know the complete or true history of the legend of King Arthur, Lady Guinevere and Sir Lancelot, and many Arthurians would probably correct me on some of my points, but this poem is in fact a love story ~ a romantic tale of a love that could never be.
www.geocities.com /poeticdiary71/guinevere.htm   (389 words)

  
 QUEEN GUINEVERE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
and were discovered, Lancelot fled and Guinevere was sentenced to burning at the stake.
Lancelot rescued her and war followed between him and Arthur.
Guinevere and Morgan are like two sides of a coin, the beneficent and maleficent aspects of sovereignty.
waltm.net /guine.htm   (91 words)

  
 Nancy McKenzie's Arthurian Tales
“The author of Grail Prince and Queen of Camelot brings her own special talent for grace and sensitivity to this richly detailed retelling of a classic tale of star-crossed lovers.
Guinevere recounts the story of her life: rivalry with Elaine, meeting Lancelot, marriage to Arthur — all set against a background of love, envy, ambition and betrayal in the violent world of 5th century Britain.
Guinevere weaves the threads of Mordred’s ambition, Lancelot’s guilt, Morgan’s devilry, Arthur’s courage and Gawaine’s revenge into a rich tapestry depicting the glorious era of the once and future King.
www.nancymckenzie.com   (665 words)

  
 Guinevere
She is occasionally a political pawn in the hands of Mordred, other knights, even Arthur himself, and with the help of Lancelot, she escapes a number of predicaments, including kidnapping by Sir Meliagaunt, burning at the stake, and later, marriage with her step-son.
In her guilt and hope for atonement, Guinevere has put aside earthly things and inspires Lancelot to become a monk.
Then, in a vision, Lancelot is told that the queen is dead and he travels to Amesbury to bury Queen Guinevere beside Arthur, her husband.
csis.pace.edu /grendel/projs993a/arthurian/guinevere.htm   (302 words)

  
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Messenger: We were attacked by Meliagaunt and he captured the Queen and two knights.
There is no proof of any relationship between Lancelot and Guinevere aside from there relationship as knight and queen.
Tonight, while you are out hunting with Gawaine, Mordred and I plan to sneak into Guinevere’s chamber and catch her and Lancelot in the act.
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 King Arthur | Sir Lancelot | Queen Guinevere | Merlin | Knights of the Round Table | Camelot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
King Arthur was a powerful man who ruled the castle of Camelot and commanded the Knights of the Round Table.
Arthur sentenced Guinevere to death after discovering the affair, but she was rescued by her knight in shining armor.
He was conceived during a war, and later died in battle when his jealous nephew killed him in order to overpower him.
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 Julia Margaret CAMERON - Queen Guinevere and the Little Novice
The text that accompanies this photograph is from Guinevere published in 1859.
The photograph illustrates a scene from the beginning of the poem in the aftermath of the relationship between Lancelot and Queen Guinevere.
Here Cameron has chosen to depict an obscure scene between the reclusive Queen and the 'babbling' novice as opposed to one of the grand or heroic events from the Arthurian legend.
www.ngv.vic.gov.au /cameron/96540603phid.shtml   (137 words)

  
 Worksheet on Queen Guinevere - www.ezboard.com
I am looking for painting instructions for Guinevere.
Guinevere unfortunately does not have any painting instructions available.
There is no costume pattern, but if you can work something out yourself, there are several drawings of costumes and other information about Guinevere in an old Doll Artisan magazine.
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 Guinevere ~ Other Characters in Arthurian Legend | King Arthur & The Knights of the Round Table   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Guinevere ~ Other Characters in Arthurian Legend
The incident may have been related to quarrels between Guinevere and her sister, Mordred's wife, Gwenhwyfach, which are said to have been the eventual cause of the Battle of Camlan.
This appears to echo the story of the False Guinevere of French Romance: an identical half-sister of the Queen fathered on the same night who persuaded Arthur that she was his true wife.
www.kingarthursknights.com /others/guinevere.asp   (390 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Guinevere   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Described by the publisher as a work which "probes the mysteries surrounding Camelot's infamous queen," Guinevere adds conjecture and broad extrapolation to the small field of scholarly study about King Arthur's queen.
She now adds her interpretations of French romances and Finnish mythology to "prove" Guinevere was a Pictish high priestess.
The first one that really brought me up short was something like, Guinevere's marriage contract with Arthur made her his archivist.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0060164425   (461 words)

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