Thomas Malory

Sir Thomas Malory was the author of Le Morte d'Arthur, the best-known English telling of the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Much about his life is uncertain. In his book he called himself a 'knight prisoner'. Most scholars identify him with Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire, a knight and member of Parliament who was imprisoned several times during the troubled years of the Wars of the Roses, both on criminal charges and possibly for political reasons; others have proposed different men of the same name. He seems to have written his book while in prison. Drawing mainly on French romances, which he translated and shortened, he told the whole story of Arthur, from his birth and the sword in the stone through the adventures of knights such as Lancelot, Gareth and Tristram and the quest for the Holy Grail, to the fall of the Round Table and Arthur's death. Malory died in 1471 and was buried in London. In 1485 the printer William Caxton published the book.

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