[
The Death of King Arthur]
,usually modernised as
La Morte du roi Arthurand sometimes called simply
La Mort Artu,is a thirteenth-century French prose romance. According to the
Mortitself, it was commissioned by Henry II, who wanted to know how each of the Knights of the Round Table met their end. The author claims to be Gautier Map. However, the text was composed in the late 1220s (Kennedy 13), after the deaths of both Henry II and Gautier Map, and the author is therefore usually known as “Pseudo-Map” (Pratt 49). The
Mortis one of the best-attested medieval French texts and is often surmised to be among the most popular. Scholars have referred to it as a “blockbuster” (Sunderland 63) or “bestseller” (Dover 91).
The Mort takes inspiration from Geoffrey of
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Citation: Watts, Cat. "La Mort le Roi Artu". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 March 2025 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=41137, accessed 03 April 2025.]
