Lancelot: A Brief Story Of The Legend Of King Arthur

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King Arthur also trusted Lancelot. Several other knights became suspicious of Lancelot and Guinevere’s private romance. King Arthur’s nephew gathered 12 knights and sent them to Guinevere’s chamber catching them in bed. When King Arthur found out, the King found himself in ruinous war with Lancelot. Queen Guinevere later became a nun, where she spent the rest of her life praying and helping the poor. Filled with remorse of what her and Lancelot had created, and she vowed never to see him again(Encyclopedia). In the Arthurian legend it says that Excalibur the sword was given to Arthur by the lady in the lake. And it also says that Excalibur was the sword that Arthur had removed from the brute stone, that indicated that he was the true

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