Godegrain

Godegrains, Gotegrin, Gundregroas

A count in King Arthur’s service. Godegrains first appears in Chrétien de Troyes’s Erec as a guest at Erec’s wedding, to which he brought 100 knights.

In Heinrich von dem Türlin’s Diu Crône, he becomes Queen Guinevere’s brother and the son of King Garlin of Galore. Godegrains kidnapped his sister from Arthur’s court when he felt that she had behaved basely in an incident involving Sir Gasozein of Dragoz. Intending to kill the queen, he was apprehended in the act by Gasozein himself, and was defeated.