Maleagant

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Maleagant (varied spellings), or Melwas, is an often-otherworldly villain and one of the earliest known characters from the Arthurian legend. In a popular episode, told in multiple variants, he abducts King Arthur’s wife, Queen Guinevere, necessitating her rescue by Arthur and his knights—in a later tradition, notably by Guinevere's secret lover, Lancelot. The earliest surviving version of this episode names the abductor as Melwas in the Welsh tales. As Maleagant, he debuts as Lancelot's archenemy in Chrétien de Troyes' French romance Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, where he is depicted as a rebelious knight of the Round Table and son of King Bagdemagus. There, and in the following popular tradition, he is slain in a duel by Lancelot.