Damoiseles
There are several ‘Damoiseles’ in the Vulgate and below are some of Sommer’s list. Some of them might be the same person.
- Damoisele
This damoisele “de la nef” who is the devil in person and endeavours to deceive the messengers. - Damoisele
She asks Nascien to take her on board Solomon’s ship. - Damoisele
Maiden of the kingdom of the Inhospitable Land Upheld. Her name ‘Honorable’ is only found in the MS No. 337. - Damoisele
She wept for the conqueror of La Doulereuse Garde. - Damoisele
She mourns over the fate of Gawain. - Damoisele
Whom Gawain had left in La Doulereuse Garde. - Damoisele
She promised to tell Gawain the name of the knight whom they both sought as soon as she knew it herself. - Damoisele
Who tells Lancelot that he must promise on oath to terminate the enchantment of the Castle before he would be allowed to depart. - Damoisele
Whose lover two knights had killed, she asked Gawain to revenge her. - Damoisele
Who hands Lancelot a letter from the Damsel whom he had left in La Doloureuse Garde. - Damoisele
Whom Guenevere saw at La Doulereuse Garde. - Damoisele
Who carried the shield to Guenevere. - Damoisele
She led Hector to the pavilion of Guinas. She was Ladomas paramour. - Damoisele
The bearer of the cleft shield. She was the niece of ‘the Hermit’. - Damoisele
A damsel who takes Gawain to the daughter of the King of Norgales. She was the lover of Sagremor. - Damoisele
A damsel with a palfrey whom Gawain and Hector ask about the lord of l´Isle Perdue. - Damoisele
This damsel was in chains. She was the former sweetheart of Gadrasalain. - Damoisele
A damsel who was chased by two knights, whom Galeschin rescues. - Damoisele
The sweetheart of Meliant le Gai, whom Carados carries off. She is the friend of la Dame du Blanc Castel, the cousin of Galeschin. - Damoisele
Sister of the damsel Galeschin meet, she conducts Lancelot and Ywain. - Damoisele
She held a sword in her hand and wounded Lancelot from behind. - Damoisele
She is Morgan who tempts Lancelot. - Damoisele
Who told Lionel that Lancelot was dead, in order to cause him to fight an enemy of hers. - Damoisele
A damsel on a black palfrey wearing black, who informs Lionel that Lancelot is not dead. - Damoisele
The younger of the two damsels, whom the elder had sent to find out who Lancelot was. - Damoisele
Whom Gawain serves and who guides him to le Pont Perdue (the Lost Bridge). - Damoisele
She asks Lancelot for the head of a knight who had killed her lover. She is the step-sister of Meleagant. - Damoisele
The Damoisele in the cart whom Gawain replaced for the love of Lancelot. She is the Damsel of the Lake. - Damoisele
She offered to show Bohort a most marvellous adventure. - Damoisele
Lancelot meets this damsel in la Forest Sapine, and she tells him about the danger of Meleagant’s sister. - Damoisele
Lancelot promises to do whatever she would ask him for the information she gave him about a knight in red armor. - Damoisele
Who comes out of a pavilion when she hears the cries for help of the dwarf whom Sagremor chastises for striking his horse. - Damoisele
On a white mule who greeted Lancelot and told him that he was the most desired knight. - Damoisele
In a marble cellar, whom Gawain vainly endeavours to deliver. - Damoisele
Whose hawk Ywain obtained for her from a knight who had taken it from her. - Damoisele
Whom Mordred asks for night quarters. - Damoisele
Who brought the Crowned Lion of Libe to court. - Damoisele
On a black palfrey who made Sornehan promise not to kill Agravain. - Damoisele
Who rode a small palfrey. She asked Sagremor and Guerrehes if they had not seen her brother Agloval. - Damoisele
Gaheriet found her in a pavilion sitting on a bed and holding a mirror. - Damoisele
Whom Lancelot finds in great distress because a knight has dishonoured her sister. - Damoisele
Who healed Lancelot when he had been poisoned by the drinking water from a fountain. [See Amable] - Damoisele
Terrican carries her off and Lionel follows. - Damoisele
Whom Hector meets lamenting Lionel. - Damoisele
Who predicted near Corbenic that Lancelot would not leave the castle without shame. - Damoisele
Lancelot meets her in La Forest Perdue. - Damoisele
Who vilifies Bohort because, while at Corbenic, he had not seen the Adventurous Palace. - Damoisele
Whose brother and hawk Bohort restored to her after fighting and killing the knight who took them from her. - Damoisele
Whose head a knight, after having beaten her, struck off and flung at Lancelot’s face. - Damoisele
She promised Lancelot to find Lionel. - Damoisele
She sat on a white palfrey and tried to dissuade Lancelot from going to the castle of Tinaguel. - Damoisele
Whom Lancelot meets with a dwarf, she tells him what has happened to Lionel. - Damoisele
Who told the host of Baudemagus that she had met a knight carrying another wounded one. - Damoisele
Cousin of Queen Guenevere. She is sent with a message to the Lady of the Lake, and is caught and imprisoned by Claudas. - Damoisele
Who implores Lancelot’s help, but is killed before his eyes before he has time to arm himself. - Damoisele
Hector and Perceval meets this damsel near l’Isle de Joie not far from Corbenic. - Damoisele
The cousin of the daughter of the king of Brangoire. She reproaches Bohort, when he, with Hector and Lionel, is at her house, for having neglected the mother of his son Helain le Blanc. - Damoisele
Bohort, Hector, and Lionel meet her in the wood. - Damoisele
Whom Hector and Lionel meet near the castle of Zelotes, and who warns them of the danger they run at the castle. - Damoisele
Gawain found her lamenting Ywain, while two men were holding her. - Damoisele
A beautiful damsel who comes to court on the eve of Whitsunday and asks for Lancelot. - Damoisele
A damsel on a palfrey, who humbles Lancelot by referring to his sinful life and its consequences. - Damoisele
Whom Lancelot meets, she knows what he is seeking, and tells him that he has never been nearer to it, if he will but persevere. - Damoisele
A beautiful damsel whom Bohort saw being carried off by two knights and whom he rescues. - Damoisele
She was the devil in disguise and tempts Bohort. - Damoisele
Who brings Lancelot a fresh linen “robe” at Corbenic. - Damoisele
Whom Lancelot sends to Arthur when he is besieging Gannes to ask him for peace. - Damoisele
Who, with a dwarf, is sent by Lore de Branlant to Arthur to ask him for a knight to fight against Gaudin de Val Esfrois. - Damoisele
Whom Karracados carries off by force and to whom he entrusts the sword of Driant le Gai, by which, as his mother predicted to him, he would be killed. - Damoisele
The damsel whose lover was imprisoned by Kaols sans Douceur in le Chastel de la Mort. - Damoisele
Who tells Gawain that Sagremor is fighting hard against ten knights in the Enchanted Orchard. - Damoisele
Who informs Sagremor that Li Outredoutez besieges the Chastel as Dames, formerly that of Greomar.
- Damoiseles
The two damsels who passed Agravain. - Damoiseles
Two damsels Gawain and Griflet met. - Damoiseles
Two damsels at whose house Lancelot and Gawain pass the night, after the former’s ride in the cart. - Damoiseles
The twelve damsels whom Gawain sees in the Adventurous Palace. In another entry Bohort is said to have seen twelve damsels in the “Palais Aventureux”. - Damoiseles
Twelve damsels who lament after Ywain has taken Mauduit’s shield. - Damoiseles
The two who were bathing in a fountain, when a knight pursuing another accidentally surprised them. - Damoiseles
Two damsels whom Lancelot finds at a fountain and who invite him to share their meal.