Tristan
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Tristan (Latin/Brythonic: Drustanus; ; , Portuguese: Tristão; Spanish: Tristán), also known as Tristran or Tristram and similar names, is the folk hero of the legend of Tristan and Iseult. While escorting the Irish princess Iseult to wed Tristan's uncle, King Mark of Cornwall, Tristan and Iseult accidentally drink a love potion during the journey and fall in love, beginning an adulterous relationship that eventually leads to Tristan's banishment and death.
Key facts
- Character.series
- Tristan and Iseult
- Character.image
- File:Rogelio de Egusquiza - Tristán e Iseo (La vida).jpg
- Character.caption
- Tristan and Isolde (Life) by Rogelio de Egusquiza (1912)
- Character.occupation
- Knight (Knight of the Round Table in the prose tradition)
- Character.nationality
- Cornish
- Character.family
- Meliodas, Mark
- Character.significant_other
- Iseult(s)
- Character.title
- Sir
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Rogelio de Egusquiza - Tristán e Iseo (La vida).jpg
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- date of death
- 0585-01-01
- name in native language
- Trystan ap Meliodas
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- Tristan
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- Name
- Legend
- ''Le Morte d'Arthur''
- Historicity
- Tristan Stone
- Modern works
- See also
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Tristan (Latin/Brythonic: Drustanus; ; , Portuguese: Tristão; Spanish: Tristán), also known as Tristran or Tristram and similar names, is the folk hero of the legend of Tristan and Iseult. While escorting the Irish princess Iseult to wed Tristan's uncle, King Mark of Cornwall, Tristan and Iseult accidentally drink a love potion during the journey and fall in love, beginning an adulterous relationship that eventually leads to Tristan's banishment and death.
The character's first recorded appearance is in the 12th-century poetic tellings initiated by Béroul and Thomas of Britain, which were eventually vastly expanded in the later tradition from the vast Prose Tristan. In later versions of his story he is featured in Arthurian legend, including the seminal compilation ''Le Morte d'Arthur, as a great Knight of the Round Table and friend of Lancelot.