1. Filling in the Gaps

2. Why…
Because we read an assortment of stories, we need to fill in the gaps before we move on.

3. The conception of Mordred
Mother: Morgause (King Lot’s wife)
Also mother of Gawain by husband King Lot
Killed by another son, Gaheris, who found her with a guy named Lamorak, whose father was Pellinore, who killed King Lot
Father: Arthur (Gasp!)(Morgause’s half brother)
Mordred is Arthur’s son and nephew (ewwww)
How the heck? Morgause tricked an unsuspecting Arthur

4. Lancelot One of the most famous knights Tragic failure
Mother: Queen Elaine of Benoic
Father: King Ban
Father killed; mother gone
Vivien, Lady of the Lake, raised him in Avalon
Where he gets the name “Lancelot du Lac” (of the lake, like Shrek )

5. Lancelot continued
Lady of the Lake sends him to be a knight of the round table
Immediately falls for Guenevere
Saves her multiple times
Taken advantage of by Elaine of Carbonek
First time: fathers Galahad; Elaine uses magic to look like Guenevere
Guenevere gets mad 
Second time: goes insane
Cured by the Sangreal Chalice (Holy Grail)

6. The Holy Grail Cup used by Jesus at the last supper, magical powers
Taken to England by descendants of Jesus’ Uncle Joseph; cup hidden and eventually forgotten
Centuries later (Arthur era) prophesied that it’d be discovered by the bravest knight, Perilous Seat
Perilous Seat belongs to Sir Galahad, Lancelot’s son
Lancelot not good enough, because of adultery

7. Guenevere
“Involvement with other men” in all versions, translations of the story
She’s a ho, fo sho
Kidnapped by Arthur’s enemy, Meliagrance; Lancelot rescues her
When she and Lancelot are discovered she’s sentenced to burn at the stake; Lancelot rescues her again
In different versions, she either helps Mordred betray Arthur or is forced into; either way – no good
In the end, she goes to a convent, when Lancelot comes back to discover this, he goes to a monastery.
When she dies in that nunnery, he sickens himself with grief and dies too.