Who was the legendary hero, King Arthur? Did he really exist? Is their enough evidence to reveal this great mystery? To begin to understand the legends surrounding these famous character, readers need to answer important questions: Did Malory recreate a long lost hero Arthur, or were the legends and characters all in his imagination?
Thomas Malory is almost certain to be Sir Thomas Malory, of Newbord Revell, Warwickshire. He was born "into a gentry family that had lived for centuries in the English Midlands near the point where Warwickshiure, Leicestershire, and Northanmptonshire meet".(Field, 115) Of Thomas Malory's early years not much is known. When he was 23, records reveal that he was a "respectable country landowner with a growing interset in politics."(115) In 1141 Thomas Malory became dubbed a knight. Two years later Sir Thomas Malory married Elizabeth Walsh of Wanlip, and they had a son named Robert. …
