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What’s in a name? Pelinor is named after one of King Arthur’s original Knights of the Round Table, who embodies the concepts which define our work ethic. As the greatest of all knights (in Arthur’s own words), he never gives up his lifelong pursuit of the Questing Beast. He represents great tenacity and attainable perfection, concepts which we hope to achieve in our efforts for you. See below for a brief history of his life.

Pelinor & King Arthur

Pelinor (often called Pellinore), the King of Listinoire, was a knight whose lifelong mission was the pursuit of the Questing Beast. We first meet him encamped beside a fountain where he faces challenges from passing knights. King Arthur takes up the challenge, against Merlin’s counsel, and jousts with him.

Pelinor beats King Arthur after three jousts and breaks the sword that Arthur had withdrawn from the stone (which is why Arthur must later receive Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake). Merlin throws a spell of enchantment on Pelinor to save Arthur’s life.

Arthur, grateful for his life, praises Pelinor’s skill: “There liveth not so worshipful a knight as he was; I had liefer than the stint of my land a year that he were alive”
(from Thomas Mallory's Le Morte d’Arthur).

Pelinor joins the original Knights of the Round Table (among them Sir Kay and Sir Gawain). While fighting in Arthur’s war against Rience, he slays King Lot at the Battle of Dimilioc (also called Tarabel) and instigates a family feud with Lot’s sons (Gawaine and Gaheris, who later avenge their father’s death).

Pelinor was said to have been of the royal line of St. Joseph of Arimathea, the dynasty who traditionally guarded the Holy Grail. Indeed, it is Pelinor’s own son, Percivale, who was one of the first Grail seekers, and his grand nephew, Sir Galahad, who finally succeeds in the Quest.

References: Vulgate Merlin, Livre d'Artus, Le Morte d'Arthur

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