Books/Writings
  • Le Mort D'Arthur (Author: Sir Thomas Malory)
    (Available New, Used, and as a Free Digital Edition)
  • Lancelot or The Knight of the Cart (Author: Chrétien de Troyes)
    (Available New and Used)
  • Perceval or The Story of the Grail (Author: Chrétien de Troyes)
    (Available New and Used)
King Arthur
fl. 550
British

Legendary king. Arthur is said to have valiantly defended his Celtic and Christian realm against pagan Anglo-Saxon invaders. His court at Camelot, with its famous "round table" of dedicated knights drawn from all over Europe, came to represent all the finest ideals of courtly love, of honour, of self-sacrificing service to God, country, and humanity, of knightly chivalry, and of mystical devotion to God's Holy Grail. Although there are references to Arthur by a variety of Medieval writers, the most complete account is Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, written in the 15th century nearly a thousand years after Arthur is supposed to have lived.

Contemporaries
?–526Theodoric
500–547Theodora
574–622Shotoku Taishi
499–565Procopius
570–632Mohammed
482–565Justinian
521–597St. Columba
453–523St. Bridget
484–577St. Brendan
480–524Anicius Boethius
fl. 550Bodhidharma
fl. 550Bias
480–547St. Benedict of Nursia
fl. 550Antar
fl. c. 550–c. 650Aneirin
573–664'Amr ibn al-'As
573–634Abu-Bakr