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King Leodegrance (sometimes Leondegrance or some other minor variation) is the father of Queen Guinevere
Guinevere

Guinevere was the legendary queen consort of King Arthur. She was most famous for her love affair with Arthur's chief knight Sir Lancelot, which first appears in Chr?tien de Troyes' Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart....
 in Arthurian legend. His kingdom of Cameliard is sometimes identified with a location somewhere in the southwest of England. Leodegrance had served Uther Pendragon
Uther Pendragon

Uther Pendragon is a legendary king of sub-Roman Britain and the father of King Arthur.A few minor references to Uther appear in Old Welsh language Medieval Welsh literature, but his biography was first written down by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Historia Regum Britanniae , and Geoffrey's account of the character was used in most lat...
, King Arthur
King Arthur

King Arthur is a legendary Britons leader who, according to medieval histories and Romance , led the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders in the early 6th century....
's biological father and regnal predecessor, and was entrusted with the keeping of the Round Table
Round Table (Camelot)

The Round Table is King Arthur's famed table in the Arthurian legend, around which he and his Knights of the Round Tables congregate. As its name suggests, it has no head, implying that everyone who sits there has equal status....
 at Uther's death. When Guinevere marries Arthur, Leodegrance gives the young king the table as a wedding present.






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King Leodegrance (sometimes Leondegrance or some other minor variation) is the father of Queen Guinevere
Guinevere

Guinevere was the legendary queen consort of King Arthur. She was most famous for her love affair with Arthur's chief knight Sir Lancelot, which first appears in Chr?tien de Troyes' Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart....
 in Arthurian legend. His kingdom of Cameliard is sometimes identified with a location somewhere in the southwest of England. Leodegrance had served Uther Pendragon
Uther Pendragon

Uther Pendragon is a legendary king of sub-Roman Britain and the father of King Arthur.A few minor references to Uther appear in Old Welsh language Medieval Welsh literature, but his biography was first written down by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Historia Regum Britanniae , and Geoffrey's account of the character was used in most lat...
, King Arthur
King Arthur

King Arthur is a legendary Britons leader who, according to medieval histories and Romance , led the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders in the early 6th century....
's biological father and regnal predecessor, and was entrusted with the keeping of the Round Table
Round Table (Camelot)

The Round Table is King Arthur's famed table in the Arthurian legend, around which he and his Knights of the Round Tables congregate. As its name suggests, it has no head, implying that everyone who sits there has equal status....
 at Uther's death. When Guinevere marries Arthur, Leodegrance gives the young king the table as a wedding present. In later romance Leodegrance is one of the few kings who accept Arthur as his overlord. For this his land is invaded by the rebel King Rience
Rience

King Rience is a character from Arthurian legend, an enemy of King Arthur in the early years of his reign. His realm varies: in Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, he is king of North Wales, Ireland and "many isles"....
, but Arthur comes to his rescue and expels the enemy. Arthur meets Guinevere for the first time during this excursion, and they develop a love that eventually results in their fateful marriage.

According to the Lancelot-Grail
Lancelot-Grail

The Lancelot-Grail, also known as the Prose Lancelot, the Vulgate Cycle, or the Pseudo-Map Cycle, is a major source of Arthurian legend written in French language....
 Cycle, Leodegrance fathered a second daughter out of wedlock; he also names this child Guinevere. The False Guinevere later treacherously convinces Arthur's court that she is his real wife and her sister is an imposter, forcing the real queen and her lover Lancelot
Lancelot

In the Arthurian legend, Sir Lancelot is one of the Knights of the Round Tables of the Round Table . He is typically considered to be one of the greatest and most trusted of King Arthur's knights and plays a part in many of Arthur's victories....
 into hiding with their friend Galehaut
Galehaut

Galehaut, Sire des Lointaines Isles appears for the first time in Arthurian literature in the early-thirteenth-century prose Lancelot, the central work in the series of anonymous French language prose romances collectively called the Lancelot-Grail or Arthurian Vulgate Cycle....
. Guinevere eventually returns and reclaims her throne.

In Welsh mythology
Welsh mythology

Welsh mythology, the remnants of the mythology of the pre-Christian Britons , has come down to us in much altered form in Medieval Welsh literature such as the Red Book of Hergest, the White Book of Rhydderch, the Book of Aneirin and the Book of Taliesin....
 the father of Gwenhwyfar (Guinevere) is the giant Ogyruan/Ogyrvan or Gogyrfan, who is mentioned in a number of Middle Welsh texts.

See also

  • List of Arthurian characters
    List of Arthurian characters

    The Arthurian legend featured many characters, including the Knights of the Round table and members of King Arthur's family. Their names often differed from version to version and from language to language....