Uther Pendragon
According to Arthurian legend, Merlin magically disguises Uther to look like his enemy Gorlois, enabling Uther to sleep with Gorlois' wife Lady Igraine. Thus Arthur, "the once and future king", is an illegitimate child (though later legend, as found in Malory, emphasises that the conception occurred after Gorlois's death and that he was legitimated by Uther's subsequent marriage to Igraine). This act of conception occurs the very night that Uther's troops dispatch Gorlois. The theme of illegitimate conception is repeated in Arthur's siring of Mordred by his own half-sister Morgause in the 13th century French prose cycles, which was invented by them; it is Mordred who mortally wounds King Arthur in the Battle of Camlann.
Q507738
Arthurian legend
ORG
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Merlin
MEDIA
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disguises
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Igraine
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PER
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illegitimate conception
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Mordred
MEDIA
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Morgause
MEDIA
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King Arthur
MEDIA
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Battle of Camlann
LOC
Q507738
Arthurian legend
ORG
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Igraine
MISC
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Gorlois
MISC
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Igraine
MISC
Q369139
Morgause
MEDIA
Q45792
King Arthur
MEDIA