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Guinevere (Gwen), 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 theLancelot-Grail Cycle of the early 13th century and carrying through the Post-VulgateCycle 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
Troyes's Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart and became a motif in Arthurian literature, starting with theLancelot-Grail Cycle of the early 13th century and carrying through the Post-VulgateCycle 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
