Igraine
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Igraine is the legendary mother of King Arthur in the Matter of Britain. She becomes the wife of Arthur's father, the King of the Britons Uther Pendragon, after the death of her first husband, the lor
King Uther and Igraine after Gorlois's death, from Uther and Igraine by Warwick Deeping, illustration by Władysław T. Benda, 1903
Merlin taking away the infant Arthur from Igraine. An illustration by N. C. Wyeth for The Boy's King Arthur (1880): "So the child was delivered unto Merlin, and so he bare it forth."
Poppy Delevingne in 2014
Claire Forlani in 2015
Gorlois
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In Arthurian legend, Gorlois of Tintagel was the Duke of Cornwall. He was the first husband of King Arthur's mother Igraine and the father of her daughters, Arthur's half-sisters. Her second husband w
Igraine
…the wife of Arthur's father, the King of the Britons Uther Pendragon, after the death of her first husband, the lord of Cornwall, sometimes known as Gorlois. With the latter, she has at least one daughter, the number of which may vary to up to five, depending on the telling; in a popular version from Le…
Igraine and Gorlois in Władysław T. Benda's illustration for Uther and Igraine by Warwick Deeping (1903). In much of modern Arthurian tradition (a prominent example is 1983's The Mists of Avalon), he is portrayed as a jealous and abusive husband