Brandiles

Sir Brandiles is a knight of the Round Table who appears across multiple books of Le Morte d'Arthur, with 11 citations spanning tournaments, encounters, and battles. He is listed among the "noble knights" who accompanied Arthur to a tournament alongside Sir Kay, Sir Bedivere, and Sir Meliot de Logres (Le Morte d'Arthur, Book VII, Chapter XXVII).

Brandiles features most prominently in his encounter with Sir Tristram. He offered to joust with the Cornish knight and was "smote down, horse and all, to the earth" (Le Morte d'Arthur, Book IX, Chapter XIV). Undeterred, he approached Tristram afterward, saying "I would wit fain what is that knight's name," and later welcomed him warmly: "we be right glad that we have found you, and we be of a fellowship that would be right glad of your company" (Le Morte d'Arthur, Book IX, Chapter XIV). When King Mark fled from Sir Dagonet's challenge, Brandiles demanded "What knight is that, that so suddenly departed from you, and rode over yonder field?" (Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X, Chapter XII). He then attempted to avenge Dagonet's fall but was himself defeated: "the knight smote Sir Brandiles so sore that he went to the earth, horse and man" (Le Morte d'Arthur, Book X, Chapter XIII).

In the later books, Brandiles appears among the jousters at the Winchester tournament (Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XVIII, Chapter X) and fought in the defence of Queen Guenever against Sir Meliagrance, where he and his companions "slew forty men of the boldest and the best of them" before being laid to the ground (Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XIX, Chapter II).