Matter of Britain Figure
Sir Thomas Malory
- Summary
- Almost certainly Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel, Warwickshire: knight, MP, and repeat criminal defendant (charges included ambush, extortion, rape and cattle-raiding), who wrote Le Morte Darthur in prison and finished it in the ninth year of Edward IV, i.e. 1469-70.
- Dates
- d. 1471
- Kind
- author
- Where scholars disagree
- The identification is defended at length by P. J. C. Field and accepted by most, but rival candidates have been proposed.
Worldviews
Malory's Fellowship and Its Fall
Provenance
- Source method
- Web research
- Review status
- DRAFT
- Confidence
- MEDIUM