Yvaine

Ewain, Owain, Uwain, Yvonet

In Celtic and Arthurian legend the son of Morgan le Fay and King Urien and he was one of King Arthur's knights. One day he comes to a spring which is guarded by another knight, who attacks and kills everyone who takes water from it. Owain wins over him and follows him in full gallop to his castle. The hill-people wants to kill him, but one of the Lady of the castle's maidens gives him a ring which makes him invisible. He stays in the castle where the defeated knight soon dies of his wounds, and then he understands to win the widow.

After a few years of marriage he wants to go out for adventures again and gets his wife's premission to be away from home for a while, but when he is not home again on the said day but comes to late she says he is a knight without honor, unworthy her love. Owain becomes insane of despair. He recovers though and heads out for new adventures to win new honor. He is called the Knight of Lions because he, during one of his travels, encountered a lion, which followed him faithfully.

Historically he was a king of Rheged (Cumbria and Galloway) at the end of the sixth century AD.

Vulgate VII gives a list of six different knights with this name. Chrétien de Troyes gives the name Yvain four times in the list of Arthur's knights beginning line 1691 of "Erec and Enide": Yvain son of Uriens, Yvain of Loenel, Yvain the Bastard, and Yvain of Cavaliot. The only two I include here are the sons of King Uriens. His legitimate son, by Queen Morgan, is given as Ywaine.

Chrétien's "Yvain the Bastard" would probably be the one I originally listed as Yvonet li Avoutres; Chrétien mentions him again in Perceval. It seems to me simplest to leave him entered here as Yvonet le Avoutres and risk confusion with the squire(s?) Yvonet of Chrétien's Perceval.