#beaumains

[illustratus]

"How Beaumains defeated the Red Knight, and always the damosel spake many foul words unto him"

by Arthur Rackham

#arthur rackham #arthurian #art #beaumains #red knight #combat #duel #medieval #chivalry #knights #middle ages #le morte d'arthur #morte d'arthur #chivalric romance #sir thomas malory #thomas malory #knights of the round table #england #britain #mythology #history #armour #knight #knighthood #damsel #damsels #king arthur

[queer-ragnelle]

Gareth 🧸🔪 for the ask game if u want=)

🧸Headcanon about childhood

I think Gareth is actually a runaway. He didn’t tell his mother where he was going, he just left. But the journey from Kirkwall to Camelot gives a kid a lot of time to think and Gareth started to make up unfortunate potential outcomes in his head. He went into the kitchens not to try and one-up the competition, but to avoid his brothers seeing him and reporting back to their mother. He’s out of touch and didn’t know how they would react, so his anxiety made a mountain out of a molehill. Beaumains time it is.

🔪Headcanon relating to fighting/violence

While Gareth could technically be considered a protege of Lancelot, he tends to overthink the situation, and initially struggles to reach his full potential as a fighter for this reason. He can’t turn his brain off and get in the zone as easily as Lancelot or Gawain. But when he does, he can’t lose.

#arthurian legend #arthurian legends #arthurian mythology #arthuriana #arthurian literature #sir gareth #gareth #beaumains #ask #invaders-forever #ask game

[tiodolma]

Arthur, the King of Customer Service Helpdesk

Damosel: King Arthur, I need to ask help for my Lady.

Arthur: okay What's her name? Location? Phone number?

Damosel: I cannot tell you but istg she is fair and good lady by my word. She's being besieged by the Red Knight tho. So pls help and send us your knights coz apparently they're the best in the world.

Arthur: ....

Gawain: uh sire, the Red Knight is dangerous af, he almost killed me.

Arthur: Girl, if u cant tell us any more details then we cant help you. Sorry about that.

Damosel: 😑

#le morte d'arthur #king arthur #sir gawain #gawain #beaumains #arthuriana #heli blobbing

[jimbelton]

Gareth and Lynette - Chapter I

Gareth and Lynette – Chapter I

Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory is a collection of English versions of Arthurian legends written in the 1400’s. Many of them are based on the French Vulgate Lancelot cycle. Being in middle English, it is not an easy read for modern readers. Here is my rendering of the first chapter, where we are introduced to the youth “Beaumains”. I attempt as usual to stay faithful to the original while…

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#arthur #beaumains #gareth and lynette #gawain #sir kay #thomas malory

[blogdemocratesjr]

Tour Saint-Jacques projet (2021, The light beam indicates the direction of Santiago de Compostela.) & Suivez mon panache rose (2012) by Jacqueline Dauriac

Among the Portuguese knights who took part with initiative in these events [the struggle with Arabian power in Granada, Spain] was Francisco Almeida. With the leave of the Portuguese king and as a knight of St James he was among the foremost in the siege and fall of Granada. It was he who afterwards became, on behalf of Emmanuel I of Portugal, the first Viceroy of India. Documentary history tells us comparatively little of Almeida, who was closely connected not only with Emmanuel of Portugal but with Ferdinand and Isabella also. Almeida had been an eye-witness of the unhappy bargaining with the hand of Juana, for as ambassador of Alphonso V he had prepared the latter’s journey to Louis XI of France. The awful nature of Jauna’s treatment had entered deeply into Almeida’s soul, and had awakened in him the sure knowledge that a new age was coming, wherein the destinies of nations would be guided in quite other ways than by marrying and giving in marriage. He wanted to see Portugal and Spain united not by marriages but by brave and conscious deed, of significance for all mankind. It was indeed an event of the greatest importance when the Christian army assailed the rose-covered walls of Granada, and planted thereon the ensign of the Order, whose coat of arms contained the sword, it is true, but with a heart in place of the handle, for in the traditions of the Order it was known that in future ages love must take the place of the sword—only the time for this was not yet fully come.

In the hands of the Moors who held Granada there was at that time a sacred treasure, with the possession of which a kind of hidden knowledge was associated. It was a sacred relic connected with a form of alchemy. Destiny brought it about that this object and the knowledge associated with it fell into the hands of Francesco Almeida. Almeida felt that he had the right to dispose of it after his own insight, but the Order of St James did not agree with him, and desired to keep for itself the right of disposal, both of the relic itself, and of the hidden knowledge which went with it. Almeida however insisted on his right and eventually passed on the relic and the knowledge to a certain man from Alsace, whose name was Stefan Rautter. This individual is known to history under the pseudonym Basil Valentine. His writings, preserved by his pupils and circulated in manuscript form, were at a later time collected and published by Tholde, secretary of the Rosicrucian Order. … Basil Valentine here mentions, among other things, that he undertook in peril of his life a journey to Santiago de Compostela, and he remarks that those who may now benefit from the knowledge which he brought from there should thank God that he was enabled to complete the arduous journey.

Basil Valentine’s work contains the great secret of alchemy, which consists in the study of certain transmutations of carbon, referred to mysteriously as the prima materia. The secret is not revealed; it is only hinted at in a half-jocular form, where it is said that the disciple of alchemy must not take it amiss if he be called upon to dirty his hands with coal.

Basil Valentine also mentions that he came to England. Thomas Malory, who here became his pupil, repeats the same jest in the story of the knight, Beaumains. Indeed, the entire seventh book of Malory’s Morte d’Arthur proves him a pupil of Basil Valentine; only what Basil refers to as the stone which goes through many colors is for Malory the knight of many-colored armor.

It was Almeida, therefore, who withheld the knowledge from the Order of St James and was responsible for giving it to Basil Valentine. The hidden knowledge, and the preparation in question, was preserved thenceforth in the Rosicrucian schools of alchemy. This knowledge is indeed very ancient, and in the last resort goes back to the time of Alexander the Great, who learned the secret of substance and of its medical use from his tutor, Aristotle. The ‘coal,’ the transmutation of which is the subject of alchemy, is indeed none other than the carbon contained in every living substance. In the living body of man this carbon does indeed take on all colors, inasmuch as all the organs are made up of its compounds. Carbon builds up the human body, which is not only alive, but permeated in its living substance by soul and spirit. What Basil Valentine calls the Philosopher’s Stone is none other than the human being looked at from the threefold aspect of body, soul, and spirit. Therefore the Philosopher’s Stone is represented as consisting of three substances, though one in essence. In the mystery schools of antiquity it was always known that the human being must experience a transmutation in body, soul and spirit if ordinary consciousness is to be changed into a higher, clairvoyant consciousness. To describe this transmutation in the language of carbon chemistry was the essential content of Basil Valentine’s alchemy. Thus Almeida brought the royal art from Granada to Compostela and from there, by the hand of Basil Valentine, to Alsace and to Thomas Malory in England.

—Walter J. Stein, The Death of Merlin (pp.91–93)

#Jacqueline Dauriac #Walter Johannes Stein #Francisco de Almeida #St. James #Santiago de Compostela #Rosicrucians #Alexander the Great #Aristotle #Basil Valentine #Beaumains #Thomas Malory

[mortiscausa]

And then they took their horses and rode throughout a fair forest; and then they came to a plain, and saw where were many pavilions and tents, and a fair castle, and there was much smoke and great noise; and when they came near the siege Sir Beaumains espied upon great trees, as he rode, how there hung full goodly armed knights by the neck, and their shields about their necks with their swords, and gilt spurs upon their heels, and so there hung nigh a forty knights shamefully with full rich arms. Then Sir Beaumains abated his countenance and said, What meaneth this? Fair sir, said the damosel, abate not your cheer for all this sight, for ye must courage yourself, or else ye be all shent, for all these knights came hither to this siege to rescue my sister Dame Lionesse, and when the Red Knight of the Red Launds had overcome them, he put them to this shameful death without mercy and pity. And in the same wise he will serve you but if you quit you the better. Le Morte D'Arthur, Book 8 | Thomas Malory

march to camelot #4: monstrous

#march to camelot #arthurian #arthurian legends #sir gareth #lady lynette #sir beaumains #knights of the round table #illustration #illustrators on tumblr #i missed out the gilt spurs but I'M NOT GOING BACK TO EDIT ;A; #tw death

[gymnopedie]

what is sir kay’s problem 😭

#malorydaily #arthuriana #le morte d'arthur #first beaumains now this???

[ofglories]

@camelot-fallen This is why Salter has next to nothing bad to say about her favorite Niece.

She's now grinning so brightly you can practically see puppy ears and a wagging tail on her.

#camelot-fallen #camelotfallen #as fair as the northerly winds; gareth beaumains #gareth gets a compliment from Uncle and goes into happy dog mode

[caer-gai]

Star-gazing

“Sir Gaheris?” A voice Gaheris was uncomfortably re-acquainted with broke the near silence of the night. Gaheris bobbed his head vaguely as Beaumains came to stand beside him. He wouldn’t think of the younger man as Gareth, not yet anyways.

Gareth, in his mind, was still several feet shorter than him and still chubby with baby fat. Gareth was a warm weight against his ribs at night, so long as Father and Mother never heard of it. Gareth was scared of thunderstorms and dark nights and thought cheese grew on trees. If Beaumain’s eyes sparkled the same green they were not as bright, so they couldn’t be the same.

“Is everything all right, sir?”

Gareth would never call him sir. Gareth would ask him questions. Him and Gawain and Aggravain each in turn, until they’d all gotten tired and snapped at him. And then he would ask Gaheris again. Gaheris’s mouth quirked up.

“Quite. I was just stargazing.”

“Oh.” there was a pause while the younger man turned his gaze skyward as well. “Oh.”

Gaheris couldn’t help but chuckle at his brother’s awestruck gasp. His brother. 

Gaheris cast a sidelong glance at him. Beaumain’s eyes sparkled as he took in the sight. His hair was tied in a loose ponytail, though so much of it had fallen out it was more down than up. If Gaheris looked closely at his face’s profile, he could see where it followed the same outline as Gareth’s. 

Beaumains was taller than Gaheris, with broad shoulders that were sure to impress a number of ladies (and several knights as well). He was confident, self-assured, he was a goddamn hero. As much as Gaheris could see Gareth in him Beaumains felt more like a reflection than the same person.

Or was that just an excuse for not recognising him that whole year? For how the boy who’d been his second half in childhood grew up without him. For leaving him. 

Gaheris turned his head sharply as his throat burned and tears welled in his eyes. Beaumains still noticed.

“Are you alright?” he took a step closer before tacking on a “Sir?”

“Quite,” Gaheris heard his voice break. Beaumains hovered while he cried quietly. When Gaheris had collected himself enough to look up Beaumains was still there, fidgeting awkwardly.

He doesn’t know either. Gaheris realized.

“Would you like me to leave, sir?” 

The question shattered the momentary silence and Gaheris’s heart in one go.

“No,” Gaheris answered, “No, stay.”

It took no thought, he was certain he wanted Beaumains here. He wanted- he wanted to be brothers again, though he doubted they could ever be the same as they were. They watched the stars till they set. When they came down from the roof and went to their rooms Beaumains truly felt like his brother. Maybe not the Gareth yet, but a Gareth. Someone Gaheris could see Gareth becoming, if he gave the boy in his mind some time.

#gareth #gaheris #fanfic #angst #relationship study #a little bit? #never know when to call it that lmao #gaheris pov #implied child abuse #but it's VERY implied #gaheris calls beaumains a man in this but he's really like 16 17 #gaheris is probably 4 years older? maybe 5 #this was supposed to be fluffy but then Gaheris took #the wheel lmao

[cestacruz]

Gareth and Lynette Sure don't like each other

Its just so fucking funny to me

I dont have my sources rn but i just find it hilarious how fcking mean some people are to gareth

And the fact that Gareth and Lyonesse are so jn love and trying to have that premarital sex but then Lynette (and iirc in some versions, even the other Orkneys) cockblocks them so bad to the point of enchanting an armor to attack Gareth (and he actually gets stabbed in the thigh the two times they try to consumate their premarriage relationship)

#go read Lady Beaumains its such a good fic and character study on Gareth #it has lynette and lyonesse too

[queer-ragnelle]

May I have 💝🫂 and 🌟 headcanons for Gareth? He's my favourite~

Hi, sorry for the delay, not all these emojis appear on desktop! So I had to Frankenstein this answer between my computer and my phone lol

💝Headcanon about love language:

This is harder to answer than it should be bc my multi-shipper self likes Gareth with Lyonors and Lynette and some crackships but Gareth sort of mutates to his partner. lol. In a world with wifey Lyonors, I think he likes how calm she is, on the opposite end from Kay and Lynette in regards to his treatment. "Words of Affirmation," so to speak. She reassures him when he’s anxious and strokes his ego when he’s confident. In a world with wifey Lynette, Gareth is more of an "Acts of Service" guy. He performs feats for her to show his affection. In return, she patches him up<3 Now for the crackships, he [redacted]...

🫂Headcanon about friendship:

The thing about Gareth is all his friends are older. Whether by design or subconsciously developing these sorts of relationships, he has situated himself into the "little brother" role that Mordred usurped from him, in a sense. Whether that be friendships with Kay, or Lancelot and his kin, or even his sister-in-laws, he has successfully appointed himself as the youngest around, surrounded by people he can look up to and ask for guidance. High anxiety Gareth is real to me and he needs to be immersed in an environment of people who Know What's Up or at least lead him to believe as much.

🌟Headcanon about desires/wishes:

Gareth does, secretly, wish to be French. Blasphemous, I know. Idolizing Lancelot has gone to his head.

#arthurian legend #arthurian legends #arthuriana #arthurian mythology #arthurian literature #gareth #sir gareth #gareth beaumains #beaumains #ask #ask game #merilles

[tiodolma]

i still ship Gareth(beaumains) and Lynette(lady savage) ngl

They were two egotistical idiots forced by Arthur on behalf of Gareth(Beaumains) on a roadtrip together. Lynette was an ass to him and kept calling him "unworthy kitchen boy". Gareth was an ass to her and won't let her be released from his charge coz "he promised King Arthur". Lynette kept asking other knights to kill him so that she could be free. Gareth kept killing all those knights and wont give them mercy unless she asked for them to be shown mercy.

But ngl it's obvious they pushed and challenged each other the whole time.

And at the end, Lynette finally admitted her mistakes and apologized and went on assisting and healing him.

and Gareth still thought he never did any wrong.

Their toxic hate-hate-enemies-to-friends relationsht was a lot more organic and built thru prolonged exposure with each other in a extended roadtrip filled with challenges.

I wish they just became more. They honestly brought out the best and worst in each other. Gareth x Lynette is probably one of the most fleshed out m/f dynamics in malory i have ever seen.

#gareth x lynette #galynette #gareth x linet #beaumains #gareth #lynette #le morte d'arthur #arthuriana #lady savage #heli blobbing #lyonor was more like a trophy ngl #lust at first sight

[hotspurpercy]

i'm usually very suspicious of retellings, yet reading le morte darthur for class has got me thinking.... prettyhands...

#judith.txt #i hate the modern saturation of retellings and reboots #AND YET #sir beaumains/prettyhands tempts me #is this because of the morte darthur cds i used to listen to on long car journeys when i was little #not child appropriate #the collapse of camelot filled me with dread enough to make me cry #but i'm afraid the way they told that story stuck with me #and there are some interesting titbits in le morte

[blogdemocratesjr]

Sir Beaumains blows the horn (1910) by John M. [sic] Bacon and Helen Stratton

#sir beaumains #sir gareth #king arthur #the round table #arthurian legend #john m. bacon #helen stratton #camelot

[kanerallels]

You have an oc who’s Sir Gareth’s child? I am intrigued 😮

Aww thank you so much!! I'm glad you're intrigued, because I'm about to ramble about her a little

So, disclaimer-- I'm no King Arthur expert. Far from it, really. I plan to read more of those stories for research soon, but what I've come up with in this universe could make every single Arthurian fan shudder collectively in horror at how I'm abusing the source material. I'm absolutely positive someone will end up feeling that way about my fairy tale retellings at this point, honestly. So feel free to take my thoughts with a grain of salt, and know that I mean no insult to the original stories

(OH and just for the record, this is set in my fairy tale world! I decided King Arthur counts as a fairy tale, so I'm encorporating them into my series. Here's hoping I do it pretty well!)

Anyways! Sir Gareth's daughter is Risha Beaumains. She doesn't spend too much time in the court with her family, but prefers to sail the high seas with her best friend, Jack Archer, as his first mate. Yes, she is a pirate. No, her family doesn't not technically condone this, but they aren't really stopping her, either

She, along with her other best friend Alec, helped start Jack's crew back in the day. When they're hanging out, the three of them have exactly one brain cell between them, and it's anyone's guess who it belongs to at any given moment

I'm pretty excited about her as a character-- I feel like she has the potential to be the kind of character I love. I'm kinda picky about liking female characters a lot of the time, and some of the ones I love the most are ones that are just human, you know? (Elizabeth McCord is a perfect example of this in my mind) My goal is to do that with Risha. And also give her a good sense of humor because that's very important to me

I've only actually written her a little so far, but she's going to have a bigger role in the next book I'm gonna write! I'm looking forward to writing her and her future boyfriend best friend since childhood Alec, they have such a fun dynamic (in my head, anyways)

#thanks for the ask!! #i get overly excited about my ocs #so this got a lot longer than i intended #my ocs #risha beaumains #hazel rambles about her original writing #land of the tales

[gawayne]

as someone who also just read Sleepless Knights I MUST know what you think of Sleepless Knights and all of its insane references to the most obscure texts ever 👀👀👀

hkjsngvskjs it was So fun i'm so glad there are writers out there that appreciate knights just causing issues. i have no doubt i missed most of the obscure references so i would love to hear about them!! honestly while i was reading most of my brainpower was taken up thinking about kay grumpily writing versions of camelot's history where he's the main character bc i just love him soooo much ❤ their sword bridge was notably sexy and lucas's solution really tickled my inner engineer. OH and i know i just said last night that i usually don't like arthur being jealous but actually i did very much like arthur and lancelot fighting to the death <333 especially bc they made up <33

#in conclusion my priorities are not in order! #but i liked it #bisclavret reference was very fun but making beaumains a woman who is Not gareth was a coward's move tbh #why can't lucas kiss gareth. why #OH and arthur shooting soldiers with a gun 💕 girlsgonewild #his unhingedness was uncomfortable to see but in a fun way #but the best reinterpretation in the whole book? #gawain Trying to go fight lancelot but getting beaten to death by skeletons on the way #as i'm talking about it i'm remembering more and more it's delightful