Weather ◊ Travel ◊ What the Papers Say ◊ TV Guide ◊ Leisure

Enter your search terms Search
Web Site Submit search form

Home What's new Revill Index Introduction Austerfield Bolsover Bradfield Braithwell Carnfield Hall Dronfield Harworth Kimberworth Maltby Morton Newark Pinxton Revel Grange Revelstoke Rossington Rotherham Sheffield & Derbyshire Shirland Normanton & Ogston Sheffield Apprentices Stannington Throapham Tickhill Treeton Walkeringham Warwickshire Whiston Wickersley Archives Casualties of War Correspondence Extracts News Cuttings Places Resources The Knights Hospitaller Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel UK Distribution

 

Revell Family Study

Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel

See alsoSir Robert Malory and the Knights Hospitaller

See alsoThe Knights Hospitaller

The Templar Commandery of Ste-Eulalie-de-Cernon (Rouergue, France) Reference to Guillaume de Revel, 1187.

Revel places

Sir Thomas Malory (c.1405 - 1471 ) was the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur Le Morte d'Arthur . The antiquary John believed him to be Welsh , but most modern scholarship assumes that he was Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire Few facts are certain in Malory's history. From his own words he is known to have been a knight and prisoner , and his description of himself as a "servant of Jesu both day and night" has led to the inference that he might have been a priest . It is believed that he was knighted in 1442 and entered the British Parliament representing Warwickshire in 1445 , it appears that he turned towards a life of crime, being accused of murder, robbery, stealing, poaching, and rape. Supposedly while imprisoned for most of the 1450s Malory is believed to have obtained the material for his work from a French source. In the preface to the first edition of the Le Morte D'Arthur, William Caxton speaks of the work as printed by himself "after a copy unto me delivered, which copy Sir Thomas Malory did take out of certain books of French, and reduced it into English." Malory himself tells us that he finished the book in the ninth year of King Edward IV of England Edward IV (April 28, 1442 - April 9, 1483) was King of England 1461-1483, with a break of a few months in the period 1470-1471. Le Morte D'Arthur brought together the various strands of the legend in a prose romance which many critics reckon the best of its kind.