Guinas

1. Guinas
   Guins

   A count who sought to measure Gawain's strength, erected twelve pavilions near his castle and filled them with knights to dispute passage to all passing knights. When Gaheris and Sagramore had each unhorsed one of Guinas' knights, Guinas' dwarf told them they were free to proceed, and gave Sagramore a new lance to replace the one he had broken.

   Here we see that not all knights who guard passages need to be blood-thirsty scoundrels, nor all such disputed passages mortally perilous traps. Some of the guardians may be sportsmen, and the disputed passages safe (barring accidents) places to pick up glory.

   Gareth eventually conquered Guinas and made him promise to surrender to Gawain, and sent him to Gawain as a prisoner. I found no clue to the location of Guinas' castle. Guinas' sportsmanship suggest a locale in more settled areas, possibly in territory in or near that held by the chivalrous Duke Galeholt.

   
   

2. Guinas

   A lord of a castle whom Gareth fights. When exhausted he falls into the water, dragged down by his armour, and is drowned.
   
   Is he perhaps identical with the Guinas mentioned in the entry above?

   
   

3. Guinas li Blois
   'Guinas the Blond'

   A knight. See Guinan the Pale.

   
   

4. Guinas of Blakestan
   Guinas de Blakestan

   A cruel and arrogant knight. His cousin Ladomas accidentally slipped into bed with Guinas’s lady, and Guinas attacked him for this mistake, nearly killing him. Guinas then rejected his own paramour.

   Arthur’s Sir Hector came along in the middle of this, and Guinas - in a foul temper - pressed him into combat. Hector defeated Guinas twice and refrained from killing him so that Guinas could be reconciled with his lady and cousin.