Griflet

Sir griflet, also Girflet or Jaufré, is a legendary figure from the Arthurian legends and the Arthurian romance. He is the cousin of Sir Bedivere and Sir Lucan.

Background

According to the story Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory asks the young griflet King Arthur one day about that this makes him one of his knights. And Merlin advises the king did not dismiss these stretching because it 'll be a good fighter when he was once grown. And if he was getting into to adventure, it would not be sure that he would return, but he was one of the best and strongest armed knight of the world. So Arthur appoints knighted Sir griflet. This promises to him for it to compete against the Knights of the well in the tournament. So asks Sir griflet the knight at the fountain out and causing it to fall.

Sir griflet belongs to its accolade of the first Knights of the Round Table, but has served previously as a squire at the court there. In the battles of King Arthur to the rule in Britain, he is one with his relatives the most loyal collaborators of the king. Even later, he remains an avid follower and is in the fateful Battle of Camlann on its side. As one of the few he survived the carnage and is commissioned by the dying Arthur to throw Excalibur into the lake.

In Le Morte d' Arthur however, he is killed in the battle for the kidnapped Guinevere on the side of Lancelot. In this version, Sir Bedivere has to sink the contract, Excalibur.

In Jaufré, the only remaining traditional Arthurian romance Provencal language, he is the main hero.