Goodewin
Sir Goodewin is a minor knight in Le Morte d'Arthur who appears in a single episode involving the death of Sir Aglovale's servant.
Sir Goodewin is a minor knight in Le Morte d'Arthur who appears in a single episode involving the death of Sir Aglovale's servant. He defied his opponent -- "I defy thee, said Sir Goodewin" (Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XI, Chapter XI) -- and admitted to killing a man in retaliation: "I slew him, said Sir Goodewin, because of thee, for thou slewest my brother, Sir Gawdelin" (Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XI, Chapter XI).
Both citations come from a single chapter of Le Morte d'Arthur. Goodewin's role is confined to a brief exchange of defiance and justification, establishing a cycle of vengeance: he killed because his brother Sir Gawdelin was killed. The episode illustrates the pervasive cycle of retaliatory violence among Arthurian knights.
Appears in: Beings, Entities in Le Morte d'Arthur, British Tradition