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
Palamedes (romance) Palamedes (romance) Palamedes is a 13th-century French Arthurian prose Chivalric romance. Named for King Arthur's Saracen knight Palamedes, it is set in the time before the rise of Arthur, and relates the exploits of the parents of various Arthurian heroes. The work was very popular, but now exists largely in fragmentary form. The "Palamedes" romance in French was composed between 1235 and 1240 and survives in about 40 manuscripts. It was reworked as part of the vast "Compilation" of Rustichello da Pisa with additional material. In the prologue to the original work, the author says that he has named the