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The attributed arms of the Knights of the Round Table were a significant element in medieval heraldry. The identification of individuals from the Arthurian legends with particular arms is evidenced from as early as the 12th century (Loomis 1938, 47). By the 15th century some 200 such arms had been attributed^{[citation needed]}: while some were arbitrary, a considerable number, especially those relating to the major figures of the legends, had become fixed. Not all characters are linked to arms, however: none are apparently known for Merlin, Uther Pendragon or Mark or for women characters.

The following list, comprising 145 arms, is based on that of 178 arms produced by Michel Pastoureau,^[1] concentrating particularly on French works, and featuring a number of names known only, for example, from lists of participants in tournaments, and otherwise unfamiliar. This is the largest such list available, although this is also incomplete.^[2]

A[edit]

File	Knight and Blazon
	Abandain le Fortuné Argent, an inescutcheon gules Motto : BIEN FORTVNÉ
	Abilan du Désert Sable, an escarbuncle or Motto : HORS DV DÉSERT
	Acostant l'Aduré Or, a fess azure Motto : FORS ADVRÉS
	Agloval de Galles (son of Pelinore, brother of Perceval and of Lamorac of Galles, nephew of Lamorac of Listenois) Purpure crusilly or, a lion rampant argent armed and langued gules Motto: DE GALLES DE GALLES
	Agravaine the Proud (son of King Lot of Orkney, nephew of Arthur, brother of Gawain, Gaheris and Gareth, half-brother of Mordred) Purpure, a double-headed eagle or armed and beaked gules, overall a fess vert ^[3] Motto:NE POVR MOVRIR
	Agricor le Beau Géant Ermine Motto: POC A PARLER
	Aguisant (King of Scotland, distant cousin of Arthur) Argent, within an orle flory a lion gules armed and langued sable Motto: SANS PAOVR AVOIR
	Aiglin des Vaus (nephew of Keu d'Estrans, brother of Kahedin de la Vallée) Gules, a fess per fess or and sable crenellated and couped Motto: MONS OV VALS
	Aliblel Azure, six mascles argent, impaling Ermine ^[4] Motto: IE SERVIROI
	Alexander the Orphan (cousin of Tristan) Vert, a lion rampant argent
	Amant le Bel Jouteur Sable, a woman's face proper crined or Motto: C'EST POVR ELLE
	Andeliz the Red Argent, a vol inverted sable Motto: TOVT POVR LA VIE
	Aran du Pin Vert, three pinecones or Motto: POMMES DE PIN
	Argaanor the Rich Sable, an armed knight mounted on a horse forcené or bearing a battle-axe of the same shafted gules Motto: NORGALLES NORGALLES
	Argaas the Fair Or, a bull statant gules, armed, unguled and langued azure Motto: SANS PLVS AVANT
	Argoier le Fel Or, three bendlets sable Motto: ET TOVT POVR ELLE
	Ariohan (Prince of Sessoigne [Saxony] ) Argent, a wyvern sable armed and langued gules Motto: MARTEIZE
	Armand the Pilgrim Sable, semé of escallops alternately or and argent Motto: BOVRDONS ET COQVILLES
	Armond Or, a griffin segreant vert, armed and beaked argent Motto: A TOVTES BESTES CLOC
	Arphasar (brother of Esclabor, uncle of Palamedes and of Saphar) Sable, a saltire argent Motto: AV COEVR HARDI
	Arthur (King of Britain, son of Uther Pendragon, uncle of Gawain and his brothers) Azure, three crowns or Motto: PENDRAGON TESTE DE DRAGON Also Azure, thirteen crowns or, 4, 4, 4 and 1 ^[5] ^[6]
	Arthur the Small (natural son of King Arthur) Sable, a tree or. Motto: C'EST POVR ARTHVR
	Artus ly Blois Sable, a sparrowhawk argent, beaked, legged and armed or Motto: A L'ESPERVIER

B[edit]

File	Knight and Blazon
	Bagdemagus (king of Gorre, nephew of King Urien, uncle of Patrides le Hardi) Gules, three gloves argent Motto: DE GORRE EN GORRE
	Balan (brother of Balin) Argent, a boar passant armed and unguled gules Motto: MAR CAR DAIC
	Balin (elder brother of Balan, known as "the Knight with Two Swords") Argent, a boar passant armed and unguled gules, in chief three five-pointed mullets azure Motto: NARIN
	Ban of Bénoïc (father of Lancelot and of Hector, grandfather of Galahad, brother of King Bors of Gaunes, uncle of Bors and Lionel) Argent, three bendlets gules Motto: A L'AVENTVRE
	Banyers le Forcené Gyronny of eight gules and argent Motto: CANTORBIE
	Bedevere (Arthur's marshal) Or, a banner gules Motto: PREIST A VOLER
	Blanor (brother of Blioberis, cousin of Lancelot, Hector, Bors and Lionel) Argent semé of crescents sable, overall three bendlets gules Motto: PETRAZO
	Blioberis (brother of Blanor, cousin of Lancelot, Hector, Bors and Lionel) Argent semé of crescents sable, overall three bendlets gules Motto: BLIOBERIS
	Bors (one of the three chosen for the Quest for the Grail; sometimes known as "the Exile" to distinguish him from his father Bors of Gaunes, elder brother of Lionel, cousin of Lancelot and Hector, father of Hélain the White) Ermine, three bendlets gules Motto: PENOS PENAC
	Bors of Gaunes (father of Bors and Lionel, brother of King Ban of Bénoïc, uncle of Lancelot and Hector, King of Gaunes) Argent semé of five-pointed mullets sable, overall three bendlets gules Motto: Y CE FERA
	Brandelis (son of Lac, brother of Erec) Gules, three swords erect argent hilted and pommelled azure Motto: BRANDELIX
	Breunor le Chevalier sans Peur (father of Dinadan and Breunor the Black) Argent Motto: SANCERRE
	Breunor the Black (son of Breunor le Chevalier sans Peur, brother of Dinadan; sometimes known as "La Cote Mal Tayle" - "the Knight of the Ill-Cut Coat" - or "the Knight of the Vermilion Shield" ) Argent, a lion rampant chequy gules and sable, armed and langued vert Motto: SANS PEVR
	Brien des Iles Sable, a dog courant or armed and langued azure Motto: SOIT BIEN OV MAL
	Broadas the Spaniard Sable, a crayfish palewise or Motto: BROADAS BROADAS
	Brumer de la Fontaine Quarterly or and sable, a fountain emitting water argent Motto: PLAINE FONTAINE
	Brun sans Joie Gules goutty d'eau impaling Vert goutty d'or'' Motto: NORTOMBRELAN
	Brun sans Pitié (otherwise "le Félon" ) Sable, a dragon argent Motto: SANS PEVR
...

C[edit]

File	Knight and Blazon
	Cadrus Or, semé of tourteaux Motto: SANS SY
	Calinan Or, a wyvern gules armed and langued sable. Motto: FILS DE GVIRON
	Calogrenant Gules, a serpent vorant a child all or Motto: PIS QVE GYSSOE
	Claudas Azure, a pine tree or
	Courant de Roche Dure Sable, three rabbits argent Motto: DVR COMME ROCHE

D[edit]

File	Knight and Blazon
	Dalides de la Rivière Argent, two dolphins addorsed sable langued gules Motto: C’EST POVR RYVIERE
	Damatha Vair Motto: PVIS QVE AINSI VA
	Danain the Red Sable, a porcupine or armed azure Motto: FORCE OV DROICT
	Desier the Proud Argent, a seven-headed hydra gules langued vert Motto: LOGRES LOGRES
	Dinadan (son of Brunor le Chevalier sans Peur, brother of Brunor le Noir) Argent, a lion rampant sable armed and langued vert Motto: BIZNIQVEN
	Dodinel le Sauvage Argent, an eagle displayed wings elevated azure beaked and legged or Motto: TOVT SAVVAIGE

E[edit]

File	Knight and Blazon
	Erec Or, three serpents' heads couped gules langued vert Motto: SORTÉS SORTÉS
	Esclabor le Méconnu Chequy or and gules Motto:

F[edit]

File	Knight and Blazon
	Félix le Quérant Vert, a winged stag trippant vert unguled sable Motto: AINSI LE VEVLX
	Faran the Black Azure, three eagles displayed wings elevated argent beaked and legged sable Motto: TREMEN
	Faran the Red Azure, three eagles displayed wings elevated argent beaked and legged sable within a bordure componny of the last and or Motto: DE TOVTES TAILLES
	Fergus Per fess argent and gules, paly of six counterchanged Motto: A L’AVENTVRE
	Ferrandon the Poor Or, six bars vert Motto: TREMENER
	Ferrant du Tertre Gules, a bear passant or armed sable Motto: IE M’Y TROVVE
	Friadus le Gai Per chevron gules and or Motto: DISQVEYNEIT

G[edit]

File	Knight and Blazon
	Gaheris (third son of King Lot of Orkney, brother of Gawain, Agravaine and Gareth, half-brother of Mordred, nephew of Arthur) Purpure, a double-headed eagle displayed or beaked and legged gules within an orle of gouttes de sang
	Galahad Argent, a cross gules Motto: O L’AIDE DIEV
	Galegantin de Norgalles Purpure, a lion rampant argent armed and langued vert Motto: NORGALLES
	Galegantin le Galois Per pale or and sable, a lion rampant vert armed and langued gules
	Galehaut Argent semé of five-pointed mullets azure, a lion rampant gules armed and langued vert Motto: DE ISLE EN ISLE
	Galinde du Tertre Argent, a martlet sable^[7] Motto: MONS ET VAVLS
	Ganemor Gules, a wolf courant or armed and langued sable Motto: SOIT BLANC OV NOIR
	Gareth (youngest son of King Lot of Orkney, brother of Gawain, Agravaine and Gaheris, half-brother of Mordred, nephew of Arthur) Purpure, a double-headed eagle displayed or beaked and legged gules, overall a cottice gules
	Gawain (eldest son of King Lot of Orkney, brother of Agravaine, Gareth and Gaheris, half-brother of Mordred, father of Guinglain, nephew of Arthur) Purpure, a double-headed eagle displayed or beaked and legged gules Motto: ORCANIE ORCANIE
	Geffroi de la Tour Gules, a tower or masonned sable Motto: TOVT EN TOVR DE LA TOVR
	Girflet Or semé of thistles sable Motto: PRES OV LOING
	Gornain Sable, on a chief or three escallops gules Motto: AV PIS ALLER
	Gosenain d’Estrangort Azure, a lion rampant gardant argent armed and langued gules Motto: ABIZ NICQVEN
	Gringalas le Fort Sable, a unicorn argent horned and unguled azure Motto: DV TOVT SAVVAIGE
	Guinglain (son of Gawain) Argent, a pale raguly couped gules Motto: RICHEMONT
	Guiron le Courtois (father of Calinant) Or Motto: C’EST POVR LA BRVNNE
	Guivret the Small Per fess dancetty argent and gules Motto: VENEZ VENEZ

H[edit]

File	Knight and Blazon
	Harpin le Dur Sable, a cross moline argent Motto: A TOVT IEV
	Hector de Maris Argent, three bendlets gules, overall a sun azure Motto: AVX MARAIS
	Helain le Blanc Argent, three bendlets gules and a label of three points sable Motto: BRANGORES BRANGORES
	Hermin le Félon Barruly of ten or and azure Motto: GALICE GALICE
	Herrois le Joyeux Argent, three crosses fitchy at the foot sable Motto: CROIX SVR TOVT
	Henri de Rivel Vert goutty d'or, a lion passant gardant argent armed and langued gules Motto: LIST LIST
	Hideux le Fort Tirant Argent, a chimera rampant gules semy of hurts Motto: TIRANT LE SAVAIGE
	Hoscalen the Prussian (also known as "the Trojan") Argent, three rubies proper Motto: PRVCE PRVCE

K[edit]

File	Knight and Blazon
	Kahedin Gules, three mascles or
	Kahedin de la Vallée Gules, a scythe in pale or shafted sable Motto: AV RETOVR DV VAL
	Kalaart le Petit Sable, a triple orle or Motto: Y CE FERA
	Karados Azure, a crown argent Motto: ZELLANDE
	Kay Azure, two keys argent addorsed in pale, wards to the chief Motto: HORS DES BVSONS
	Keu d’Estraus Or, two bars gemelles sable Motto: TOVT POVR LA VIE

L[edit]

File	Knight and Blazon
	Lancelot Argent, three bendlets gules Motto: DV LAC MA DAME
	Leodegrance (father of Guinevere) Sable, a lion passant gardant or armed and langued gules Motto: ASSÉS TOST
	Lionel Argent semé of five-pointed mullets sable, three bendlets gules Motto: HARE LEVRIER

M[edit]

File	Knight and Blazon
	Méliadus de Léonois Vert Motto: A LA VERDVRE
	Méliadus de l’Espine Noire Or, three crosses botonny gules Motto: A BVSON ESPINOIE
	Mélior de l’Espine Sable, a bar or Motto: OV TART
	Mélyadus le Blanc Sable, a cross paty or Motto: HORS DES DESERTS
	Mélyadus le Noir Argent, three chevronels sable Motto: CLER OV TROVBLE
	Méraugis de Port les Guez Argent, a bordure gules Motto: CORNOVAILLE
	Mador de la Porte Sable, seven apples argent with shadows gules Motto: PRES DE LA PORTE
	Malaquin the Dane Or, a Moor's head sable crowned argent Motto: DANOIS SVYS
	Malaquin le Galois Sable, a chalice argent Motto: GNEVT SICOVB DONC
	Malaquin le Gros Purpure, on a bend argent three lions passant gardant gules Motto: MALAQVIN MALAQVIN
	Mandin l’Envoisié Gules, a mermaid combing her hair argent, scaled purpure Motto: TOVT PAR MESURE
	Mandin le Sage Per pale, dexter, vairy or and purpure, sinister, gules Motto: PEV PARLER
	Margondes le Rouge Bendy of six gules and or Motto: NÉ POVR CELA
	Melian de Lis Gules, a fox passant or armed and langued azure Motto: AV REGNART
	Melios le Beau Chevalier Per pale argent and vert, barry of six counterchanged Motto: MELIONS MELIONS
	Mirandon de la Tamise Sable, a windmill or Motto: TAMISE TAMISE
	Mordred Purpure, a double-headed eagle or and a chief argent Motto: PAR ADVENTURE

N[edit]

File	Knight and Blazon
	Nabon le Fel Argent, three fusils in fess gules Motto: HORS DE SERVAIGE

O[edit]

File	Knight and Blazon
	Osenain Cœur Hardi Quarterly argent and gules
	Ossenet d’Estrangot Azure, a lion rampant gardant argent armed and langued gules Motto: ABIZ NICQVEN

P[edit]

File	Knight and Blazon
	Palamedes Chequy argent and sable Motto: POVR CELLE POY
	Patrides au Cercle d’Or Gules, a chief or, overall a lion rampant sable armed and langued vert Motto: TOVT POVR ARTHVR
	Patrides le Hardi Argent, fretty gules Motto: I’EN SVIS
	Pellinore Or crusilly azure Motto: PAR LA CROIX
	Percival Purpure crusilly or Motto: CRVX CHRYSTI
	Pharamond Sable, three toads or Motto: GAVLE GAVLE

R[edit]

File	Knight and Blazon
	Radouin the Persian Sable, a chapel argent, the openings of the field Motto: PAR SVR TOVS ARTHVR
	Randon le Léger Per bend sinister or and azure, bendy of six counterchanged Motto: C’EST POVR BRVTVS
	Rion Or, a lion passant gardant purpure armed and langued azure Motto: TROP MI TARDE
	Rousselin du Haut Mont Or, a wild man gules holding in his hand a club sable Motto: PAR SVR LES MONTS

S[edit]

File	Knight and Blazon
	Sadoc de Vencon Barry wavy of six argent and azure Motto: IEY PIE ET PIAVLS
	Sagremor le Desreez Gules, a quarter argent, three five-pointed mullets, the one in dexter chief sable, the other two or
	Saphar Per pale, dexter, vair, sinister, chequy or and vert
	Segurades de Mont Grand Or, a mountain sable Motto: Lyst
	Seguran le Brun Or, a wyvern sable armed and langued argent Motto: SEGVRAN LE BRVN
	Sibilias aux Dures Mains Or, a fire gules Motto: D’OVLTRE MER SVIS
	Sicambrin le Trojan Sable, a sagittary or, armed with a bow of the same and arrows gules Motto: SOIZE SOIZE
	Sinados au Fil d’Or Gules, an orle or Motto: FORTVNE ME INFORTVNE
	Soliman du Bois Grand Argent, a stag statant gules armed sable Motto: HORS DV BOIS
	Synados des Sept Fontaines Azure, goutty d’eau Motto: PLAINE FONTAINE

T[edit]

File	Knight and Blazon
	Talamor le Bouillant Vert, a dove argent beaked, legged and armed gules Motto: SICVT COLVMBA
	Taulas de la Montagne Or, an Imperial orb sable, bound, partitioned and surmounted by a cross gules Motto: MARTEIZE
	Tor Or crusilly sable Motto: FORT COMME VNG TOR
	Toscan three and Roman Or, a hand sable holding a sword in pale gules Motto: ROMANYE ROMANYE
	Tristan Vert, a lion rampant or langued and armed gules Motto: C’EST POVR YSEVT

U[edit]

File	Knight and Blazon
	Urien Azure, a lion rampant or langued and armed gules Motto: A TOVT

V[edit]

File	Knight and Blazon
	Virant de la Roche Gules, a dog passant or armed and langued sable Motto: DE SVR LE ROC

Y[edit]

File	Knight and Blazon
	Yder (King of Cornwall) Gules, three lions' heads or langued sable Motto: OR BIEN
	Ywain (son of King Urien, half-brother of Ywain l'Avoutre, nephew of Arthur and Lot, cousin of Bagdemagus, Gawain and his brothers) Azure, a lion or, armed and langued gules Motto: C’EST POVR MORGVEN
	Ywain of Ussenel Or, two bars gules
	Ywain the Bastard (natural son of King Urien, hal-brother of Ywain) Azure, a pale or

Notes and references[edit]

Unless otherwise mentioned the above blazons are from Michel Pastoureau's "Armorial des chevaliers de la table ronde" as listed on the OLDJP website

^ Armorial des chevaliers de la Table ronde, 1983
^ omitting, for example, some arms from Malory's Morte d'Arthur, such as those of Abellus
^ http://merlin.hypnoweb.net/livres-grimoires/legende/chevaliers-table-ronde.158.501/
^ It is unclear whether the mascles should be blazoned 2, 2, and 2, as illustrated, or as 3, 2 and 1.
^ http://www.labanquedublason2.com/lecture_fiche_ordre.php3?page=ftr021 This blazon may simply be a misreading of treis (Michel Pastoureau "Armorial des chevaliers de la table Ronde" Ed.: Le Léopard d'Or Paris 2006, ISBN: 2-86377-206-6 )
^ "Of Arthur, said to have been king of Great Britain, some say that he had only three crowns, others, six, yet another, nine, sometimes arranged in a triangle, sometimes in a pale, and in a variety of other ways." ("De Artus, qu'on dit avoir été roy de la grande Bretaigne, quelques uns ont dit qu'il n'avoit que trois couronnes, les autres six, un autre neuf, tantost mises en triangle maintenant en pal, et ainsi diversement." De Bara, Le Blason des Armoiries, p.165)
^ depicted as an alerion

Sources[edit]

Brault, G J (1997): Early Blazon (2nd ed.). Boydell Press. ISBN 0851157114
De Bara, Jérôme (1581): Le Blason des Armoiries
Loomis, R S (1938): Arthurian Legend in Medieval Art. Modern Language Association of America
De Bara, Le Blason des Armoiries
Pastoreau, M (1983, repr 2006): Armorial des chevaliers de la Table ronde. Le Léopard d'Or ISBN 2-86377-206-6

External links[edit]

OLDJP heraldic website illustrating the arms as blazoned by Pastoureau
Arthurian Heraldry at heraldica.org
King Arthur's Coat of Arms
An Investigation into the Symbolism of Heraldry in the Legend of Tristram and Isoud
King Arthur – Attributed Heraldry

[1] Armorial des chevaliers de la Table ronde, 1983

[2] tting, for example, some arms from Malory's Morte d'Arthur, such as those of Abellus

[3] ttp://merlin.hypnoweb.net/livres-grimoires/legende/chevaliers-table-ronde.158.501/

[4] It is unclear whether the mascles should be blazoned 2, 2, and 2, as illustrated, or as 3, 2 and 1.

[5] ttp://www.labanquedublason2.com/lecture_fiche_ordre.php3?page=ftr021 This blazon may simply be a misreading of treis (Michel Pastoureau "Armorial des chevaliers de la table Ronde" Ed.: Le Léopard d'Or Paris 2006, ISBN: 2-86377-206-6 )

[6] "Of Arthur, said to have been king of Great Britain, some say that he had only three crowns, others, six, yet another, nine, sometimes arranged in a triangle, sometimes in a pale, and in a variety of other ways." ("De Artus, qu'on dit avoir été roy de la grande Bretaigne, quelques uns ont dit qu'il n'avoit que trois couronnes, les autres six, un autre neuf, tantost mises en triangle maintenant en pal, et ainsi diversement." De Bara, Le Blason des Armoiries, p.165)

[7] ted as an alerion

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