Siege Perilous

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Sir Galahad sits at the Siege Perilous, 15th-century French manuscript.
Sir Galahad sits at the Siege Perilous, 15th-century French manuscript.

In Arthurian legend, the Siege Perilous (commonly known as "The Perilous Seat") was a specially reserved seat at the Round Table which was kept vacant by Merlin for the knight who was destined to quest for and return with the Holy Grail. Depending on the version either Perceval or Sir Galahad were the purest, and most honorable of all the knights of the round table and they alone were destined to find the Grail. The Siege Perilous was so strictly reserved that it was fatal to anyone else who sat in it. One theory mentioned in the tale of King Arthur, is that Merlin one day accidentally sat in the seat and was killed.

After being knighted by his father Sir Lancelot, Galahad was led to his seat in Camelot on Whitsunday, 454 years after the death of Jesus.

An account of this is recorded in Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur and in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King.

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