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Growing Up

Did you know that during King Arthur’s time, there was a castle called the Tintangel Castle, built around the 12th century.  It was said that the castle had extensive remains of buildings on the top of the castle. One place that could be King Arthur’s birth place is the northern Cornwall, England in the Tintangel Castle. The castle was said to be King Arthur's Castle, not that he actually owned the castle. King Arthur’s wall is by one place where he grew up. The hall had stone remains on Bodmin Moor. 

  As he grew older, a beautiful marriage was made, he married the fair maiden Guinevere. King Arthur soon became King of the Britons. He also led the Knights of the Round Table. It was also said that he was a late military commander. Some stories state that Arthur led the Welsh to many victories against invading Saxons

Character

As you can guess, there were many evil knights, but then there were also great knights, too.

                  

There were many great Knights of the world in Medieval times. All of the greatest knights were very handsome and had long beautiful curly hair and polished armor. They had great characteristics. For example, loyalty and bravery. Also the knights were trustworthy, kind, and fair. They carried long swords and rode on huge, truck sized horses. One random thing about King Arthur is that it is believed that he was carried off to Avalon.

The armor to the right a lot like what King Arthur's armor would have looked like, but King Arthur would wear a quilt-type shirt over his armor. Head gear had many small rectangular holes at the bottom to breathe, two small rectangular holes to see, and the part of the armor that is placed over your mouth comes to a point and can be up or down. Knights either carried shields or swords.



Knights of the Round Table

Can you guess which knight represents King Arthur?

      
When you hear King Arthur, you probably think of the Knights of the Round Table. Well there are probably many things you still don’t know about the round table. The round table was located in Camelot and it WAS a round table, but it had a giant hole in the middle. The best knights in the world sat at this table. Some of those knights are Sir Lancelot, Sir Gawain, Sir Tristen, Sir Bors, and the leader or King, Arthur. Archeological dating methods show that the round table was made around 1272-1307.

There were many arguments about where Camelot was,
but one place seemed to be the home or headquarters of an Arthur type figure (The Cadbury Castle). There was a possibly old, ancient track that runs from Cadbury towards Glastonbury. A few scholars think that Camelot was the most famous landmark of King Arthur.

Battles

King Arthur and the knights fought for many things. The knights rescue fair maidens. King Arthur married the fair maiden Guinevere. They also found Holy Grails and put down giants. Slaying dragons or pest control was also involved. When the knights often met an evil knight, they would challenge that knight to a joust, according to tradition. 


During his time, it was said the King Arthur possibly fought a total of 22 battles. There were 12 battles against the invading Saxon army, and the other 10 have not been fully identified and also may not have occurred. One battle included the Battle of Mount Badon. King Arthur defeated England. Gildas As you could have guessed, the battles took place in many places. For example, King Arthurs last battle took place at a river, in a water meadow.