Knights of the Round Table in numerous Arthurian tales (notably the Post-Vulgate Cycle), but he is most famous as the protagonist in Chrétien de Troyes' first romance, "Erec and Enide". Because of "Erec and Enide"‘s relationship to the Welsh "Geraint and Enid", Erec and Geraint are often conflated or confused. In Chrétien's story, Erec meets his future wife Enide while on a quest to defeat a knight who had mistreated one of Guinevere's servants. The two fall in love and marry, but rumors spread that Erec no longer cares for knighthood or anything else besides his domestic life. Enide cries about these rumors, causing Erec
Goreu fab Custennin It is Goreu who ultimately slays Ysbaddaden, dragging him to the mound by his hair and there decapitating him. He then placed the head on a stake on the citadel and claims his fort and territory as his own, thus avenging the deaths of his brothers. He later appears in the Arthurian romance "Geraint fab Erbin" in which he is named as one of the four squires of Arthur's court and rides alongside the hero Geraint on his journey to Cornwall. In "Breuddwyd Rhonabwy", he appears briefly as one of Arthur's twenty four chief councillors. The "Welsh Triads" refer to