Agravain

Agravain
Matter of Britain character
Agravain's attributed arms
First appearance	Perceval, the Story of the Grail by Chrétien de Troyes
In-universe information
Title	Prince, Sir
Occupation	Knight of the Round Table
Family	Lot, Morgause (parents) Gawain, Gaheris, Gareth, Mordred (brothers)
Spouse	Florée or Laurel
Relatives	King Arthur's family
Home	Orkney, Camelot

Agravain^[a] (/ˈæ.ɡrə.veɪn/) is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, whose first known appearance is in the works of Chrétien de Troyes. He is the second eldest son of King Lot of Orkney with one of King Arthur's sisters known as Anna or Morgause, thus nephew of King Arthur, and brother to Sir Gawain, Gaheris, and Gareth, as well as half-brother to Mordred.^[b] Agravain secretly makes attempts on the life of his hated brother Gaheris starting in the Vulgate Cycle, participates in the slayings of Lamorak and Palamedes in the Post-Vulgate Cycle, and murders Dinadan in the Prose Tristan. In the French prose cycle tradition included in Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, together with Mordred, he then plays a leading role by exposing his aunt Guinevere's affair with Lancelot, which leads to his death at Lancelot's hand.

In the traditional, albeit contested, division of the massive medieval prose Lancelot portion of the Vulgate Cycle into three or four parts,^[c] the last section is named after Agravain.^[d] Despite giving his name to the section, Agravain plays only a minor part in most of its stories.

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