Anglides
Mother of Alisander le Orphelin who gave him his murdered father's bloody doublet at his knighting.
Anglides is a figure in the Tristram books of Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, attested with 3 citations in Book X. She is the wife of Prince Boudwin and mother of Alisander le Orphelin. Her role in the narrative centres on grief and the transmission of vengeance across generations.
The three citations trace an arc from devastation to purposeful action. The first records her response to her husband's murder: "Then the Lady Anglides made great dole, and swooned, for she saw her lord slain afore her face" (Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X, Chapter XXXII). This is witnessed violence -- she is present at Boudwin's death, and the detail of the swoon marks her as both victim and witness.
The subsequent citations show Anglides transformed into a figure of maternal determination. When Bellangere the Constable suggests it is time for Alisander to be knighted -- "he is a passing strong young man" -- Anglides responds with brief authority: "Be it so, and I pray you make ready therefore" (Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X, Chapter XXXIV). The chapter heading itself tells the reader what she does with this occasion: she gives Alisander "the bloody doublet" of his murdered father on the day of his knighting, along with the charge to seek vengeance against King Mark. Anglides thus functions as the mechanism by which inherited grievance becomes knightly purpose.
Appears in: Beings, Entities in Le Morte d'Arthur, British Tradition