Iseult
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Iseult, alternatively Isolde and other spellings, is the name of several characters in the legend of Tristan and Iseult. The most prominent is Iseult the Blonde, or Iseult of Ireland, the wife of Mark
La Belle Iseult by William Morris (1858)
Isolde: la princesse Celte by Gaston Bussière (1911)
Isolde by Percy Anderson (1906)
Mark of Cornwall
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Mark of Cornwall was a sixth-century King of Cornwall, possibly identical with King Conomor. As Mark or Marc, he is best known for his appearance in Arthurian legend as the uncle of Tristan and the hu
Iseult
…is the name of several characters in the legend of Tristan and Iseult. The most prominent is Iseult the Blonde, or Iseult of Ireland, the wife of Mark of Cornwall and the lover of Tristan. Her mother, the queen of Ireland, is also named Iseult. The third is Iseult of the White Hands, or Iseult of Brittany, the…
King Mark of Cornwall, drawn by Howard Pyle in 1905
14th-century depiction of Mark of Cornwall, from the Tristan Quilt
King Mark and La Belle Iseult by Edward Burne-Jones (1862)
1922 illustration by N. C. Wyeth: "King Mark slew the noble knight Sir Tristram as he sat harping before his lady la Belle Isolde."