Galahad

1. Galahad
   Galaad

   Son of Joseph of Arimathea and Elyab, born in Britain, who became the first Christian king of Wales, then called Hocelice. He was conceived after Joseph arrived in Britain, and was born in the Christian stronghold of Galafort, which was named after him. He grew up to be an excellent knight, and his brother Josephus (Josephe) invested him with the kingdom of Hoselice, which was renamed Gales, or Wales, in his honor. He married the daughter of the King of the Distant Isles and fathered Lyanor.

   According to the Vulgate Estoire del Saint Graal, his descendants were Urien and Yvain, but the thirteenth-century Lancelot do Lac, he is named as the ancestor of Ban, Lancelot, Pelles, and Alan. He was apparently buried outside of Wales; during his quest to rescue Guenevere from Meleagant (Meleagaunce), Lancelot found Galahad’s tomb and raised the slab, and monks took Galahad’s body to Wales. Lancelot fulfilled the prophecy that whoever opened the tomb would end the evil customs of Gorre.

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   See also
   Cymentiere | The Legend of King Arthur
   
   
   

2. Galahad
   Galaad, Galahos

   The birth name of Lancelot du Lac.

   The Vulgate Lancelot tells us that Lancelot "lost" the name because of his affair with Guenevere, but passed it on to his pure son. Malory says that his name changed when he was christened by the Lady of the Lake.

   He is named as one of the Twenty-four Knights of King Arthur's Court.

   
   

3. Galahad
   Galaad, Galad the lord of Pastures, Glaalanz de la Terre des Pastures

   The Saxon king of the Land of the Grazing-Grounds, who joined King Rions’ (Ryons) invasion of Carmelide. After Arthur defeated Rions’ army at Aneblayse, Merlin wove a magical fog which made Galahad’s army collide with the forces of Amant, another enemy of Arthur. The two armies decimated each other.

   Is he perhaps identical with Glaalant?

   
   

4. Galahad

   Alternative name for Galeholt, Duke of the Long Isles and of Surluse (Sorelois).

   
   

5. Galahad

   Son of the British King Hipomenes.

   Galahad was loved by his own sister. When he rejected her, she fell under the power of a demon, was impregnated, and accused Galahad of rape. Hipomenes executed Galahad, and the Questing Beast was later born of Galahad’s sister.

   
   

6. Galahad
   Galaad, Galaas, Galaat, Galaç, Galade, Galas, Galasso, Galat, Galath, Galeas, Galeatto, Galeazzo, Galeotto, Gwalhwavad

   A chaste boy-knight, son to Lancelot and princess Elaine, who raised him with consultation with his father. He replaced Perceval as the Grail hero. [More]

   
   

7. Galahad's Fountain

   A spring in the Perilous Forest. Before it was known by that name, it boiled constantly, and contained the head of King Lancelot, Lancelot’s grandfather. Lancelot removed the head, but the fountain continued to boil until the Grail Quest, when Galahad plunged his hands into it and, because he had never known lust, caused it to cool.

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   See also
   Forest of Boiling Well | The Legend of King Arthur
   
   
   

8. Galahad's Miracle

   An abbey, formerly the Uther Pendragon Abbey but re-named during the Grail Quest.

   While Galahad was recuperating at the abbey, King Mark of Cornwall poisoned his drink. Another knight named Faram the Black died, but Galahad miraculously survived.