Editing Uther Pendragon (section)

==Other medieval literature==
In [[Robert de Boron]]'s ''[[Merlin (Robert de Boron poem)|Merlin]]'', Uther Pendragon kills Hengist after an assassination attempt by the Saxon leader and Merlin creates the [[Round Table (Camelot)|Round Table]] for him. In the ''[[Lancelot-Grail|Prose Lancelot]]'', Uther Pendragon claims to have been born in [[Bourges]]. He takes an army to Brittany to fight against King [[Claudas]] at Bourges, a situation resembling that of the historical ruler [[Riothamus]] who went to Brittany to fight ravagers based in Bourges. Uther also appears in the [[chivalric romance]] ''[[Sir Cleges]]'' as the king to whom Sir Cleges brings the Christmas cherries, obtained by miracle.<ref>Laura A. Hibbard, ''Medieval Romance in England''. New York Burt Franklin, 1963. p.79.</ref>

There is an alternative account of Uther Pendragon's background in [[Wolfram von Eschenbach]]'s ''[[Parzival]]''. A certain Mazadân went with a [[fairy]] named Terdelaschoye to the land of Feimurgân. (This looks like a garbling of some source that told of Mazadân's alliance with the [[Morgan the Fay|Fay Morgan]] in Terre de la Joye; the "Land of Joy".) Mazadân becomes father of two sons, Lazaliez and Brickus. Brickus becomes father of Utepandragûn, father of Arthur, while the elder son, Lazaliez, becomes father of Gandin of [[County of Anjou|Anjou]], father of Gahmuret, father of Parzival ([[Percival]]). Uther Pendragon and Arthur here appear as the scions of the junior branch of an unattested House of [[County of Anjou|Anjou]]. Early German literature's motif of Uther's descent from fairies, believed to have relied on some now lost Celtic material, may have been meant to explain Arthur's connection with [[Avalon]]. Since, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth, [[Caliburn]] was a gift from Avalon, and Arthur was taken to Avalon to be healed. [[Layamon]] in his ''[[Layamon's Brut|Brut]]'' also said that Arthur was given various blessings by fairies.

[[Richard Carew (antiquary)|Richard Carew]]'s ''Survey of Cornwall'' (1602) drew on an earlier French writer, Nicholas Gille, who mentions Moigne, brother of Uther and Aurelius, who was [[List of legendary rulers of Cornwall|duke of Cornwall]], and "governor of the Realme" under Emperor [[Honorius (emperor)|Honorius]]. Carew's brief account of Arthur's birth also mentions a sister, Amy, also born to Uther and Igraine.<ref>{{Cite book | first=Richard | last=Carew | author-link=Richard Carew (antiquary) | title=The Survey of Cornwall. And An Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue | url=https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9878/pg9878.html | year=1769 | orig-date=1602 | publisher=E. Law and J. Hewett | page=78 }}</ref>