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The attributed arms of the Knights of the Round Table were a significant element in medieval heraldry. The identification of individuals from the Arthurian legends with particular arms is evidenced from as early as the 12th century (Loomis 1938, 47). By the 15th century some 200 such arms had been attributed[citation needed]: while some were arbitrary, a considerable number, especially those relating to the major figures of the legends, had become fixed. Not all characters are linked to arms, however: none are apparently known for Merlin, Uther Pendragon or Mark or for women characters.

The following list, comprising 145 arms, is based on that of 178 arms produced by Michel Pastoureau,[1] concentrating particularly on French works, and featuring a number of names known only, for example, from lists of participants in tournaments, and otherwise unfamiliar. This is the largest such list available, although this is also incomplete.[2]

A

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File Knight and Blazon
Abandain le Fortuné

Argent, an inescutcheon gules

Motto : BIEN FORTVNÉ

Abilan du Désert

Sable, an escarbuncle or

Motto : HORS DV DÉSERT

Acostant l'Aduré

Or, a fess azure

Motto : FORS ADVRÉS

Agloval de Galles (son of Pelinore, brother of Perceval and of Lamorac of Galles, nephew of Lamorac of Listenois)

Purpure crusilly or, a lion rampant argent armed and langued gules

Motto: DE GALLES DE GALLES

Agravaine the Proud (son of King Lot of Orkney, nephew of Arthur, brother of Gawain, Gaheris and Gareth, half-brother of Mordred)

Purpure, a double-headed eagle or armed and beaked gules, overall a fess vert [3]

Motto:NE POVR MOVRIR

Agricor le Beau Géant

Ermine

Motto: POC A PARLER

Aguisant (King of Scotland, distant cousin of Arthur)

Argent, within an orle flory a lion gules armed and langued sable

Motto: SANS PAOVR AVOIR

Aiglin des Vaus (nephew of Keu d'Estrans, brother of Kahedin de la Vallée)

Gules, a fess per fess or and sable crenellated and couped

Motto: MONS OV VALS

Aliblel

Azure, six mascles argent, impaling Ermine
[4]

Motto: IE SERVIROI

Alexander the Orphan (cousin of Tristan)

Vert, a lion rampant argent

Amant le Bel Jouteur

Sable, a woman's face proper crined or

Motto: C'EST POVR ELLE

Andeliz the Red

Argent, a vol inverted sable

Motto: TOVT POVR LA VIE

Aran du Pin

Vert, three pinecones or

Motto: POMMES DE PIN

Argaanor the Rich

Sable, an armed knight mounted on a horse forcené or bearing a battle-axe of the same shafted gules

Motto: NORGALLES NORGALLES

Argaas the Fair

Or, a bull statant gules, armed, unguled and langued azure

Motto: SANS PLVS AVANT

Argoier le Fel

Or, three bendlets sable

Motto: ET TOVT POVR ELLE

Ariohan (Prince of Sessoigne [Saxony] )

Argent, a wyvern sable armed and langued gules

Motto: MARTEIZE

Armand the Pilgrim

Sable, semé of escallops alternately or and argent

Motto: BOVRDONS ET COQVILLES

Armond

Or, a griffin segreant vert, armed and beaked argent

Motto: A TOVTES BESTES CLOC

Arphasar (brother of Esclabor, uncle of Palamedes and of Saphar)

Sable, a saltire argent

Motto: AV COEVR HARDI


Arthur (King of Britain, son of Uther Pendragon, uncle of Gawain and his brothers)

Azure, three crowns or

Motto: PENDRAGON TESTE DE DRAGON


Also Azure, thirteen crowns or, 4, 4, 4 and 1 [5] [6]

Arthur the Small (natural son of King Arthur)

Sable, a tree or.

Motto: C'EST POVR ARTHVR

Artus ly Blois

Sable, a sparrowhawk argent, beaked, legged and armed or

Motto: A L'ESPERVIER

B

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Bagdemagus (king of Gorre, nephew of King Urien, uncle of Patrides le Hardi)

Gules, three gloves argent

Motto: DE GORRE EN GORRE

Balan (brother of Balin)

Argent, a boar passant armed and unguled gules

Motto: MAR CAR DAIC

Balin (elder brother of Balan, known as "the Knight with Two Swords")

Argent, a boar passant armed and unguled gules, in chief three five-pointed mullets azure

Motto: NARIN

Ban of Bénoïc (father of Lancelot and of Hector, grandfather of Galahad, brother of King Bors of Gaunes, uncle of Bors and Lionel)

Argent, three bendlets gules

Motto: A L'AVENTVRE

Banyers le Forcené

Gyronny of eight gules and argent

Motto: CANTORBIE

Bedevere (Arthur's marshal)

Or, a banner gules

Motto: PREIST A VOLER

Blanor (brother of Blioberis, cousin of Lancelot, Hector, Bors and Lionel)

Argent semé of crescents sable, overall three bendlets gules

Motto: PETRAZO

Blioberis (brother of Blanor, cousin of Lancelot, Hector, Bors and Lionel)

Argent semé of crescents sable, overall three bendlets gules

Motto: BLIOBERIS

Bors (one of the three chosen for the Quest for the Grail; sometimes known as "the Exile" to distinguish him from his father Bors of Gaunes, elder brother of Lionel, cousin of Lancelot and Hector, father of Hélain the White)

Ermine, three bendlets gules

Motto: PENOS PENAC

Bors of Gaunes (father of Bors and Lionel, brother of King Ban of Bénoïc, uncle of Lancelot and Hector, King of Gaunes)

Argent semé of five-pointed mullets sable, overall three bendlets gules

Motto: Y CE FERA

Brandelis (son of Lac, brother of Erec)

Gules, three swords erect argent hilted and pommelled azure

Motto: BRANDELIX

Breunor le Chevalier sans Peur (father of Dinadan and Breunor the Black)

Argent

Motto: SANCERRE

Breunor the Black (son of Breunor le Chevalier sans Peur, brother of Dinadan; sometimes known as "La Cote Mal Tayle" - "the Knight of the Ill-Cut Coat" - or "the Knight of the Vermilion Shield" )

Argent, a lion rampant chequy gules and sable, armed and langued vert

Motto: SANS PEVR

Brien des Iles

Sable, a dog courant or armed and langued azure

Motto: SOIT BIEN OV MAL

Broadas the Spaniard

Sable, a crayfish palewise or

Motto: BROADAS BROADAS

Brumer de la Fontaine

Quarterly or and sable, a fountain emitting water argent

Motto: PLAINE FONTAINE

Brun sans Joie

Gules goutty d'eau impaling Vert goutty d'or''

Motto: NORTOMBRELAN

Brun sans Pitié (otherwise "le Félon" )

Sable, a dragon argent

Motto: SANS PEVR

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C

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Cadrus

Or, semé of tourteaux

Motto: SANS SY

Calinan

Or, a wyvern gules armed and langued sable.

Motto: FILS DE GVIRON

Calogrenant

Gules, a serpent vorant a child all or

Motto: PIS QVE GYSSOE

Claudas

Azure, a pine tree or

Courant de Roche Dure

Sable, three rabbits argent

Motto: DVR COMME ROCHE

D

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File Knight and Blazon
Dalides de la Rivière

Argent, two dolphins addorsed sable langued gules

Motto: C’EST POVR RYVIERE

Damatha

Vair

Motto: PVIS QVE AINSI VA

Danain the Red

Sable, a porcupine or armed azure

Motto: FORCE OV DROICT

Desier the Proud

Argent, a seven-headed hydra gules langued vert

Motto: LOGRES LOGRES

Dinadan (son of Brunor le Chevalier sans Peur, brother of Brunor le Noir)

Argent, a lion rampant sable armed and langued vert

Motto: BIZNIQVEN

Dodinel le Sauvage

Argent, an eagle displayed wings elevated azure beaked and legged or

Motto: TOVT SAVVAIGE

E

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File Knight and Blazon
Erec

Or, three serpents' heads couped gules langued vert

Motto: SORTÉS SORTÉS

Esclabor le Méconnu

Chequy or and gules Motto:

F

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File Knight and Blazon
Félix le Quérant

Vert, a winged stag trippant vert unguled sable

Motto: AINSI LE VEVLX

Faran the Black

Azure, three eagles displayed wings elevated argent beaked and legged sable

Motto: TREMEN

Faran the Red

Azure, three eagles displayed wings elevated argent beaked and legged sable within a bordure componny of the last and or

Motto: DE TOVTES TAILLES

Fergus

Per fess argent and gules, paly of six counterchanged

Motto: A L’AVENTVRE

Ferrandon the Poor

Or, six bars vert

Motto: TREMENER

Ferrant du Tertre

Gules, a bear passant or armed sable

Motto: IE M’Y TROVVE

Friadus le Gai

Per chevron gules and or

Motto: DISQVEYNEIT

G

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File Knight and Blazon
Gaheris (third son of King Lot of Orkney, brother of Gawain, Agravaine and Gareth, half-brother of Mordred, nephew of Arthur)

Purpure, a double-headed eagle displayed or beaked and legged gules within an orle of gouttes de sang

Galahad

Argent, a cross gules

Motto: O L’AIDE DIEV

Galegantin de Norgalles

Purpure, a lion rampant argent armed and langued vert

Motto: NORGALLES

Galegantin le Galois

Per pale or and sable, a lion rampant vert armed and langued gules

Galehaut

Argent semé of five-pointed mullets azure, a lion rampant gules armed and langued vert

Motto: DE ISLE EN ISLE

Galinde du Tertre

Argent, a martlet sable[7]

Motto: MONS ET VAVLS

Ganemor

Gules, a wolf courant or armed and langued sable

Motto: SOIT BLANC OV NOIR

Gareth (youngest son of King Lot of Orkney, brother of Gawain, Agravaine and Gaheris, half-brother of Mordred, nephew of Arthur)

Purpure, a double-headed eagle displayed or beaked and legged gules, overall a cottice gules

Gawain (eldest son of King Lot of Orkney, brother of Agravaine, Gareth and Gaheris, half-brother of Mordred, father of Guinglain, nephew of Arthur)

Purpure, a double-headed eagle displayed or beaked and legged gules

Motto: ORCANIE ORCANIE

Geffroi de la Tour

Gules, a tower or masonned sable

Motto: TOVT EN TOVR DE LA TOVR

Girflet

Or semé of thistles sable

Motto: PRES OV LOING

Gornain

Sable, on a chief or three escallops gules

Motto: AV PIS ALLER

Gosenain d’Estrangort

Azure, a lion rampant gardant argent armed and langued gules

Motto: ABIZ NICQVEN

Gringalas le Fort

Sable, a unicorn argent horned and unguled azure

Motto: DV TOVT SAVVAIGE

Guinglain (son of Gawain)

Argent, a pale raguly couped gules

Motto: RICHEMONT

Guiron le Courtois (father of Calinant)

Or

Motto: C’EST POVR LA BRVNNE

Guivret the Small

Per fess dancetty argent and gules

Motto: VENEZ VENEZ

H

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Harpin le Dur

Sable, a cross moline argent

Motto: A TOVT IEV

Hector de Maris

Argent, three bendlets gules, overall a sun azure

Motto: AVX MARAIS

Helain le Blanc

Argent, three bendlets gules and a label of three points sable

Motto: BRANGORES BRANGORES

Hermin le Félon

Barruly of ten or and azure

Motto: GALICE GALICE

Herrois le Joyeux

Argent, three crosses fitchy at the foot sable

Motto: CROIX SVR TOVT

Henri de Rivel

Vert goutty d'or, a lion passant gardant argent armed and langued gules

Motto: LIST LIST

Hideux le Fort Tirant

Argent, a chimera rampant gules semy of hurts

Motto: TIRANT LE SAVAIGE

Hoscalen the Prussian (also known as "the Trojan")

Argent, three rubies proper

Motto: PRVCE PRVCE

K

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File Knight and Blazon
Kahedin

Gules, three mascles or

Kahedin de la Vallée

Gules, a scythe in pale or shafted sable

Motto: AV RETOVR DV VAL

Kalaart le Petit

Sable, a triple orle or

Motto: Y CE FERA

Karados

Azure, a crown argent

Motto: ZELLANDE

Kay

Azure, two keys argent addorsed in pale, wards to the chief

Motto: HORS DES BVSONS

Keu d’Estraus

Or, two bars gemelles sable

Motto: TOVT POVR LA VIE

L

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Lancelot

Argent, three bendlets gules

Motto: DV LAC MA DAME

Leodegrance (father of Guinevere)

Sable, a lion passant gardant or armed and langued gules

Motto: ASSÉS TOST

Lionel

Argent semé of five-pointed mullets sable, three bendlets gules

Motto: HARE LEVRIER

M

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File Knight and Blazon
Méliadus de Léonois

Vert

Motto: A LA VERDVRE

Méliadus de l’Espine Noire

Or, three crosses botonny gules

Motto: A BVSON ESPINOIE

Mélior de l’Espine

Sable, a bar or

Motto: OV TART

Mélyadus le Blanc

Sable, a cross paty or

Motto: HORS DES DESERTS

Mélyadus le Noir

Argent, three chevronels sable

Motto: CLER OV TROVBLE

Méraugis de Port les Guez

Argent, a bordure gules

Motto: CORNOVAILLE

Mador de la Porte

Sable, seven apples argent with shadows gules

Motto: PRES DE LA PORTE

Malaquin the Dane

Or, a Moor's head sable crowned argent

Motto: DANOIS SVYS

Malaquin le Galois

Sable, a chalice argent

Motto: GNEVT SICOVB DONC

Malaquin le Gros

Purpure, on a bend argent three lions passant gardant gules

Motto: MALAQVIN MALAQVIN

Mandin l’Envoisié

Gules, a mermaid combing her hair argent, scaled purpure

Motto: TOVT PAR MESURE

Mandin le Sage

Per pale, dexter, vairy or and purpure, sinister, gules

Motto: PEV PARLER

Margondes le Rouge

Bendy of six gules and or

Motto: NÉ POVR CELA

Melian de Lis

Gules, a fox passant or armed and langued azure

Motto: AV REGNART

Melios le Beau Chevalier

Per pale argent and vert, barry of six counterchanged

Motto: MELIONS MELIONS

Mirandon de la Tamise

Sable, a windmill or

Motto: TAMISE TAMISE

Mordred

Purpure, a double-headed eagle or and a chief argent

Motto: PAR ADVENTURE

N

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File Knight and Blazon
Nabon le Fel

Argent, three fusils in fess gules


Motto: HORS DE SERVAIGE

O

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File Knight and Blazon
Osenain Cœur Hardi

Quarterly argent and gules


Ossenet d’Estrangot

Azure, a lion rampant gardant argent armed and langued gules


Motto: ABIZ NICQVEN

P

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File Knight and Blazon
Palamedes

Chequy argent and sable

Motto: POVR CELLE POY

Patrides au Cercle d’Or

Gules, a chief or, overall a lion rampant sable armed and langued vert

Motto: TOVT POVR ARTHVR

Patrides le Hardi

Argent, fretty gules

Motto: I’EN SVIS

Pellinore

Or crusilly azure

Motto: PAR LA CROIX

Percival

Purpure crusilly or

Motto: CRVX CHRYSTI

Pharamond

Sable, three toads or

Motto: GAVLE GAVLE

R

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File Knight and Blazon
Radouin the Persian

Sable, a chapel argent, the openings of the field

Motto: PAR SVR TOVS ARTHVR

Randon le Léger

Per bend sinister or and azure, bendy of six counterchanged

Motto: C’EST POVR BRVTVS

Rion

Or, a lion passant gardant purpure armed and langued azure

Motto: TROP MI TARDE

Rousselin du Haut Mont

Or, a wild man gules holding in his hand a club sable

Motto: PAR SVR LES MONTS

S

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File Knight and Blazon
Sadoc de Vencon

Barry wavy of six argent and azure

Motto: IEY PIE ET PIAVLS

Sagremor le Desreez

Gules, a quarter argent, three five-pointed mullets, the one in dexter chief sable, the other two or

Saphar

Per pale, dexter, vair, sinister, chequy or and vert

Segurades de Mont Grand

Or, a mountain sable

Motto: Lyst

Seguran le Brun

Or, a wyvern sable armed and langued argent

Motto: SEGVRAN LE BRVN

Sibilias aux Dures Mains

Or, a fire gules

Motto: D’OVLTRE MER SVIS

Sicambrin le Trojan

Sable, a sagittary or, armed with a bow of the same and arrows gules

Motto: SOIZE SOIZE

Sinados au Fil d’Or

Gules, an orle or

Motto: FORTVNE ME INFORTVNE

Soliman du Bois Grand

Argent, a stag statant gules armed sable

Motto: HORS DV BOIS

Synados des Sept Fontaines

Azure, goutty d’eau

Motto: PLAINE FONTAINE

T

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File Knight and Blazon
Talamor le Bouillant

Vert, a dove argent beaked, legged and armed gules


Motto: SICVT COLVMBA

Taulas de la Montagne

Or, an Imperial orb sable, bound, partitioned and surmounted by a cross gules

Motto: MARTEIZE

Tor

Or crusilly sable

Motto: FORT COMME VNG TOR

Toscan three and Roman

Or, a hand sable holding a sword in pale gules

Motto: ROMANYE ROMANYE

Tristan

Vert, a lion rampant or langued and armed gules

Motto: C’EST POVR YSEVT

U

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File Knight and Blazon
Urien

Azure, a lion rampant or langued and armed gules

Motto: A TOVT

V

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File Knight and Blazon
Virant de la Roche

Gules, a dog passant or armed and langued sable

Motto: DE SVR LE ROC

Y

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File Knight and Blazon
Yder (King of Cornwall)

Gules, three lions' heads or langued sable

Motto: OR BIEN

Ywain (son of King Urien, half-brother of Ywain l'Avoutre, nephew of Arthur and Lot, cousin of Bagdemagus, Gawain and his brothers)

Azure, a lion or, armed and langued gules


Motto: C’EST POVR MORGVEN

Ywain of Ussenel

Or, two bars gules

Ywain the Bastard (natural son of King Urien, hal-brother of Ywain)

Azure, a pale or

Notes and references

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Unless otherwise mentioned the above blazons are from Michel Pastoureau's "Armorial des chevaliers de la table ronde" as listed on the OLDJP website

  1. ^ Armorial des chevaliers de la Table ronde, 1983
  2. ^ omitting, for example, some arms from Malory's Morte d'Arthur, such as those of Abellus
  3. ^ http://merlin.hypnoweb.net/livres-grimoires/legende/chevaliers-table-ronde.158.501/
  4. ^ It is unclear whether the mascles should be blazoned 2, 2, and 2, as illustrated, or as 3, 2 and 1.
  5. ^ http://www.labanquedublason2.com/lecture_fiche_ordre.php3?page=ftr021 This blazon may simply be a misreading of treis (Michel Pastoureau "Armorial des chevaliers de la table Ronde" Ed.: Le Léopard d'Or Paris 2006, ISBN: 2-86377-206-6 )
  6. ^ "Of Arthur, said to have been king of Great Britain, some say that he had only three crowns, others, six, yet another, nine, sometimes arranged in a triangle, sometimes in a pale, and in a variety of other ways." ("De Artus, qu'on dit avoir été roy de la grande Bretaigne, quelques uns ont dit qu'il n'avoit que trois couronnes, les autres six, un autre neuf, tantost mises en triangle maintenant en pal, et ainsi diversement." De Bara, Le Blason des Armoiries, p.165)
  7. ^ depicted as an alerion

Sources

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  • Brault, G J (1997): Early Blazon (2nd ed.). Boydell Press. ISBN 0851157114
  • De Bara, Jérôme (1581): Le Blason des Armoiries
  • Loomis, R S (1938): Arthurian Legend in Medieval Art. Modern Language Association of America
  • De Bara, Le Blason des Armoiries
  • Pastoreau, M (1983, repr 2006): Armorial des chevaliers de la Table ronde. Le Léopard d'Or ISBN 2-86377-206-6

Further reading

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  • The Arthurian Encyclopedia (ed. Norris J Lacey, 1986): "Heraldry" article. Garland Publishing Inc
  • Jefferson, Lisa (1996): "Tournaments, Heraldry and the Knights of the Round Table" in Arthurian Literature XIV (ed. Carley & Riddy). Brewer
  • Loomis, R S (July 1915): "A Sidelight on the 'Tristan' of Thomas". Modern Language Review 10 (3): 304–309. doi:10.2307/3712621
  • Loomis, R S (January 1922): "Tristan and the house of Anjou". Modern Language Review 17 (1): 24–30. doi:10.2307/3714327
  • Neubecker, O (1976): Heraldry: Sources, Symbols and Meaning. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-046308-5
  • Pastoureau, M (1986): Figures et Couleurs. Le Léopard d'Or
  • Pastoreau, M (1997a): Traité d'Héraldique (3rd edn). Picard. ISBN 2-7084-0520-9
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