Meleagant

In Caradoc's Vita Gildae, the king of Somerset who abducts Guinevere from Arthur's court. She is held prisoner at Glastonbury Abbey until Gildas intervenes. A reconciliation is reached and Guinevere is returned to Arthur.

In the Vulgate Cycle, Chrétien de Troyes' Lancelot, and Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, Meleagant is portrayed as a jealous and evil man. In Chrétien, Lancelot fights him several times and eventually kills him.

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