Who Is King Pellinore (Sir Pellinore)?
The mighty king who hunts the Questing Beast
King Pellinore is a powerful knight who endlessly hunts the "Questing Beast," and a king who later becomes one of Arthur's Knights of the Round Table. In Malory's stories, he is the father of Tor, Lamorak, and Percival.
In Episode 2, he has pitched a pavilion beside a well and challenges every passing knight to single combat. He fights the young Arthur, breaks his sword, and nearly kills him, but Merlin puts Pellinore to sleep with magic and saves Arthur. Merlin says that Pellinore will later be of great help to the kingdom. At the wedding in Episode 4, Pellinore sets out on a quest to chase a kidnapped lady, but along the way he abandons a young woman who begs for his help. Merlin later tells him that she was his own daughter.
Because he killed King Lot in battle, he also earns the hatred of Lot's sons, Gawain and his brothers.
Episodes featuring this character2
NEWEpisode 2
The Day the Boy King's Sword BrokeExcalibur and the Lady of the Lake
Fresh from victory over the rebel kings, the boy king Arthur is riding high, until he learns of a terrible sin he committed without knowing it. Then, in a duel with the knight of the spring, King Pellinore, the sword from the stone shatters. The Lady of the Lake grants Arthur a new blade, Excalibur, and Merlin asks him one question: which matters more, the sword or the scabbard?
19 pages
NEWEpisode 4
The Mistake That Wrote the Knights' CodeGawain and the Pentecostal Oath
Knighted on King Arthur's wedding day, young Gawain is desperate to win glory. When his hounds are killed, he flies into a rage, refuses a beaten knight's plea for mercy, and the lady who throws herself between them dies by his hand. He doesn't run. He carries his shame back to the court, and the vow he swears there becomes the oath of every Knight of the Round Table.
19 pages